My current header features my friend (and former teacher) Bernard Woma (left, playing the xylophone), rehearsing with his “cultural group” of musicians and dancers at his home in Medie, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. The photo is from January 2004, when I was travelling on Geekcorps business with Berkman colleague Andrew McLaughlin.
Bernard is a Dagara master xylophonist from Nandom, a small village near the Burkina Faso border in northwestern Ghana. He’s now the master drummer of the National Theatre of Ghana and a lecturer at SUNY Fredonia, where he’s both teaching in the music department and studying towards his BA.
