Happy 96th Birthday to James Barnor, a for-years-obscure Ghanaian photographer working in London who in that obscurity amassed an astonishingly powerful collection of photographs of the city in the 1950s and 60s, of Ghana spiraling towards independence, and intimate scenes of the African diaspora negotiating post-War England. It was at age 71 that Barnor first began to be recognized for his position across history, and by 90, he had been exhibited in the Tate Modern, the V&A, and other museums, and was according the honor of being named a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, the oldest such society in the world. READ some more about this fantastic photographer… (1929)

“I was lucky to be alive when things were happening…when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became indepe

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