The story follows a woman who has a vision of meeting her mother – who she believed had abandoned her at birth – and her journey home.

This collection is heavily imbued by my experience as a woman from the diaspora visiting and (re)connecting with the motherland – especially Ghana. It seeks to explore the internal dissonance that diasporic communities feel due to immigration, movements and displacements, and the void that can only be filled by going back ‘home’. 

The first two parts, ‘the vision’ and ‘the meeting place’, were photographed in Butre and Kumasi, Ghana. Although I am not from Ghana, these are two places that I hold very close to my heart. 

I use two important devices and structures in this collection: free verse and dissonance. Free verse is found in the loosely structured, often unmetered and fluid verses – used to reflect the surrender to flow in different chapters of my own journey. Dissonance is used to exemplify the disharmony between the negative narratives told in the media about Africa and the incredible experience of actually visiting her different countries. 

The Freedom Editions are a continuation of my Finding Freedom 1/1 collection. Like in the first collection, you can find adinkra symbols tied to each piece. Adinkra symbols are visual representations of Akan proverbs that are pervasive in Ghanaian culture and history. With this work, I invite you on my search for freedom, and to see Ghana through my lens.