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…
