NIGERIAN novelist, poet, professor and critic Chinua Achebe once said that if you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. One person who has taken this to heart is Aaron Yeboah jnr.“I spent 10 years living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” the Ghanaian says. People he met there had little knowledge of Africa. “People would say, ‘Oh, you’re from Africa. You live in huts.’ Even having access to information right in the palm of their hand with the Internet wasn’t enough. So I thought that creating a magazine would help spread the word.”The result was African Lens, of which Yeboah is the curator and designer. Because he hadn’t seen any outlet for true African stories, the goal was to create a revolution of young Africans telling their own stories through photographs.“African Lens serves as an open window into the world of Africans,” he says. “I wanted African photographers to show the world the Africa we know, the Africa we see, and the Africa of our dreams. African Lens hopes to shine a ...
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