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Education takes flight under Ghanaian artist’s repurposed planes

Education takes flight under Ghanaian artist’s repurposed planes

FRANCIS KOKOROKO and COOPER INVEEN HUNDREDS of meters above the village of Jenakpeng in northern Ghana, a small drone locked its sights on six aeroplanes parked in the middle of a verdant field miles away from the nearest runway. The drone's 16-year-old pilot, Jenakpeng native Abdul-Latif Zakaria, stood with his father Danaa in the shadow of a vintage Antonov cropduster, one of six planes that world-renowned artist Ibrahim Mahama has transformed into a community learning space. In 2021, Mahama bought the planes using proceeds from $1 million worth of sales to add to his Red Clay Studio, a multi-acre compound…
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