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It is said that when you spot a cluster of baobab trees it’s the sign a village once existed in that spot. I counted at least 13 clusters on the way to Gwolu, but all the other signs of life had perished. These islands of baobab, Shea butter, Locust Bean, and fig trees preserved the history of the stateless; they were the archive of the defeated.

Ghana 1957 after they won independence: “Vice President Nixon, who attended the ceremonies as the head of the US delegation, asked a group of jubilant young men, “How doors it feel to be free?” “We don’t know,” they replied. “We’re from Alabama.”