“This photo was taken in the mid 70’s in the USSR (now Russia). My mother is second from the left and is with her fellow classmates. Ghana and Russia had strong links in the 60’s and 70’s which saw a lot of Ghanaian students head to there for exchange programs and courses. I love this photo! I see how young my mum was at the time and imagine the fear but excitement she must have felt heading to another country in a time when Ghana was really in the throws of re-shaping it’s future after independence. My mother has been a traveler and a Ghanaian civil servant all her life. No matter where she went, sometimes for a year at a time, she always came back home to serve her country. I love that I get to see the beginning of that journey right here in a photograph and find a way to mimic it by returning home to sow into my country and live my dreams.”- @msadjei #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #OralHistory #FamilyHistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdx0Q8DBN_/?utm_medium=tumblr

Happy Mothers’ Day to all mothers and mother figures! Slide 1- A woman holding her child in Keta, 1939 Slide 2-A woman and child pictured in the early 1900s in the Gold Coast Slide 3- Queen Mother of Ashanti, Asantehemaa Nana Amma Serwaa Nyarko II, arriving at the Kumasi Dubar on December 12, 1946 with her attendants Slide 4- Let us know the best advice your mother or mother figure has given you. Comment below! #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #OralHistory #FamilyHistory #Mothers #MothersDay https://www.instagram.com/p/COpzvDKDJZ6/?igshid=1o0n7d5oqjbmu

Happy World Afro Day! Pictured is a Sick-Hagemeyer shop assistant, photographed by the legendary James Barnor in Accra in 1971. #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #Photography #WorldAfroDay https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLFJcDpLY2/?igshid=16pdmq6mugncx

Happy #WorldBookDay! What are your favorite books to read about Ghana or by Ghanaian authors? #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory https://www.instagram.com/p/COBd2m7p3D9/?igshid=1ntzho3gh0fv1

An article from the @nytimes archives on the passing of Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah died on April 27, 1972 in Romania. Today marks the 49th anniversary of his passing. #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #Nkrumah
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Our #WCW Ethel Jacks, Ghana’s table tennis champion. She won the women’s singles title in the African Table Tennis Championship in 1964, 1968, and 1974. She also won the African doubles championship titles in 1964 and 1968 with her doubles partner, the late Ernestina Akuetteh. She received an award from the African Table Tennis Federation in 2019 for her contribution to the sport (📷 Pamela Ofori-Boateng) #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #GhanaianWomen #Africa #AfricanHistory #AfricanWomen #womeninhistory #TableTennis #TableTennisPlayers https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7xHy8Dn2D/?igshid=1hkhcuatzob39

October 24, 1945: The United Nations charter went into effect, also known as UN Day. Pictured is a Muslim prayer service in Accra in observance of the 20th anniversary of UN Day, October 24, 1965. The 20th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations was observed through various activities, including religious services during which special prayers were said for the organization. (📷 UN Multimedia) #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #AfricanHistory #History #UN #UNDay #Ghanaians https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuqqUGpyB0/?igshid=dleeokcshv11

Students at @aggreymemorialshs pose for a photo on the steps of the school library in the early 1970s. Tag an old student! @amosanetwork #OurHistoryOurStories #TheNanaProject #Ghana #GhanaHistory #GhanaianHistory #Amamezians #Amosa https://www.instagram.com/p/COd3wanpYDY/?igshid=1iiqwr9fw00gd