See How Ghanaian Photographer Was Featured In Instagram

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A Ghanaian photographer, Nana Kofi Acquah has been featured in a book chronicling 10 historic moments.

Instagram’s CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on late last month to discuss nothing more that the power and resonance of simple photo shots.

The audience with the Pope at the Apostolic Palace is the latest move by Instagram to assert itself as the dominant platform for visual communication.

That meet may have worked because a couple of weeks later, Pope Francis made his Instagram debut.

In recent months, Instagram has been working at boosting the social media sharing platform’s discovery features and during their meet, Systrom brought with him a book featuring 10 historic moments.

These moments included the Nepalese earthquake and shots of Middle Eastern migrants, but it also featured a simple but compelling image from Nana Kofi Acquah.

Nana Kofi Acquah normally shares images of his country that seek to buck the mainstream international media representations of Africa.

To him, the African continent is much more than a place of penury and disease as encompassed by his picture below which shows him and a young child taking in the marvel of a lunar eclipse three years ago.

Photographer and poet Nana Kofi also uses his travels around Africa to chronicle the lives of women at their most accomplished and at their most vulnerable.

Nana Kofi is also a self-declared male feminist and he has stated that he is driven to change the narrative around African women where they are sometimes portrayed as vulnerable and subdued.

He has been featured on BBC and Reuters in his capacity as an African Male Feminist and on CNN’s African Voices for attempting to redefine the perceptions of Africa through his photographs and writings.

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