Big dreams: He’s the founder of a leading African photobook library

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<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000×1997+0+0/resize/3000×1997!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb2%2Ffa%2F8339e4224b7abba026f8860417b9%2Fdikan-center-11.jpg' alt='Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career — and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson in the Dikan Center in the capital city of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He's holding a copy of the center's oldest book, The Gold Coast Yesterday and Today, published in the early 1940s.’/>

Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.

(Image credit: Nana Kofi Acquah for NPR)



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