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and the Beatles were around. Things were happening , so I call myself Lucky Jim.”


a way that later he asked me who I worked for. I said the Daily Graphic, and he said: ‘You are lucky no one has blown your head [away] the way you’re doing things.’ He’d been in a queue and I’d shouted, and he’d turned round and I’d taken the picture before he realised what happened.”


“ In the 60s, Ghana had become independent, He also took a lot of photographs at


Accra’s Makola market, where he captured a wide range of people going about their daily lives. Tere is one assignment he remembers


very well. When the news reached him of a serious train crash at Konongo (in the


Ashanti region), it was near closing time, so instead of dispatching one of his two assistants, he decided to cover it by hitch- ing a lift in the van taking the newspapers to Kumasi overnight. Having tried unsuccessfully to find


out what he could in the middle of the night, he returned to the crash scene in the morning, where a train had ploughed into a tanker and many people had died. He took some photographs, but without a reporter in tow, he had to file a story. So he went to the hospital where the victims had been taken, but the doctor would not


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