Tag: Ghana

by James Murren 21 March 2018 Number of comments0
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Surf History — West Africa

An essay (African Echo) I wrote for The Surfer’s Journal, shedding some light on the origins of surfing, is availableContinue Reading

by James Murren 16 June 2017 Number of comments0
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Go Here, Go There: Travel and Work … My New Book

I have a new book: Go Here, Go There: Travel and Work From the Introduction: Between the years 2005 andContinue Reading

by James Murren 26 May 2017 2
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West African Surf History

I am honored to have an essay published in The Surfer’s Journal.  It is, without question, and will always be,Continue Reading

by James Murren 01 March 2009 1
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One Prez Obama

one president obama is not bigger than “the boys of baraka” or baltimore’s two children of “girlhood”   from ghana’sContinue Reading

by James Murren 20 January 2009 Number of comments0
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3 Owls and Greatness

A few minutes into a winter walk last week, wind chills below zero and the late afternoon sun doing itsContinue Reading

by James Murren 29 February 2008 1
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Elmina’s Slave Castle on Ghana’s Gold Coast

  Elmina Castle sits stubbornly along the Gold Coast of Ghana in western Africa .  Defiant to the Atlantic ,Continue Reading

by James Murren 29 February 2008 Number of comments0
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So long “Dispatches from Africa ,” Hello “Dispatches from the Land of the Free”

Ten months ago, we started walking on a journey that took us places we could never have imagined on aContinue Reading