<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000×1997+0+0/resize/3000×1997!/?url=httppercent3Apercent2Fpercent2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.compercent2Fb2percent2Ffapercent2F8339e4224b7abba026f8860417b9percent2Fdikan-center-11.jpg' alt='Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced images as a profession — and was impressed to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson within the Dikan Middle within the capital metropolis of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He's holding a duplicate of the middle's oldest ebook, The Gold Coast Yesterday and In the present day, revealed within the early Nineteen Forties.’/>
Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a contemporary library dedicated to photobooks displaying life on the continent. He maxed out his bank cards, injured his again — and made it occur.
(Picture credit score: Nana Kofi Acquah for NPR)
