Dear Diary 'AKWABAA! Me Dayεε ABAMU' (WELCOME! MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE)

By Lisa Amparbeng

About the pillowcases

dear diary, as the youngest, is about dreams of mine and my ghanaians friends to travel and live in london to make a better future for my present and future family. however, there is always a fear that such a journey could bring forth anguish, physically and mentally between my ghanaian culture and the british culture. Dear diary highlights having reached London and suffered what the previous wave of Ghanaian people have suffered an adaptation of my African attire to accommodate the climate change. There is a real fear of losing my cultural identity, first, with my clothing, and now with my hair. My friends' say, embrace both cultures, you only come out stronger that way.

About Lisa Amparbeng                             

Lisa Amparbeng is a LLB law graduate from the University of the West of England, Bristol. As an artist, she has participated in a voluntary in a mural art projects for Stockwood's Youth Club and previously worked as a secondary art tutor in Bristol. She works on commission sketching portraits. Later in 2006, she will be exhibiting in BookMarked! - A public art exhibition in the independent bookshop Crockatt & Powell, Waterloo, London, from 30th October - 25th November 2006.