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...gravestone or craft statues of Mary, Jesus and the saints for the many churches that were springing up across the country. Traveling from village to village, Kwame discovered a curious thing: people in the Volta region were underwhelmed by the idea of independence. Fearing that Ghana's bigger tribes would discriminate against them, many Voltans wanted independence to come in stages--or even the chance to secede altogether. Tribalism, which would later rear its ugly head in places like Nigeria and Rwanda, was shaping postcolonial Africa...
...year before. Everyone spoke of the resulting "annihilation of time and space," and in a journal called the Quarterly Review a writer predicted that "as distances [are] thus annihilated, the surface of our country would, as it were, shrivel in size until it became not much bigger than one immense city...
...pieces onto a plotter and then blew it up with a machine we had to [a size] four times as big. We scanned it into the computer and enlarged it times four. Once we put all the pieces together, I realized I wanted it to be bigger." The rest of the set wasn’t easy to build, either. As both set designer and technical director, Thompson explains that she had two separate responsibilities in “Pterodactyls.” "The designer should have an idea of how everything is going to be built. The tech director...
...Let’s all petition for a bigger room,” Schlesinger dead-panned, according to a Crimson article from that year...
...Let’s all petition for a bigger room,” Schlesinger dead-panned, according to a Crimson article from that year...