Colleen Ross - Global View: Ghana
Colleen Ross is a national news producer for CBC Radio in Toronto. She lived in Ghana in 2005, working with Journalists for Human Rights and freelancing for the CBC and BBC. She has an M.A. in both English Literature and Journalism, winning a scholarship to CBC Newsworld. Colleen is trilingual, and taught at a German university before entering journalism. She is originally from Fruitvale, B.C.
FEATURE COLUMN:
October 18, 2006
Child veterans look for redemption
"Davis says it took him a while to understand that the AK-47 thrust into his small hands could kill. 'On Christmas Day, our daddy always bought us toy guns … So I thought it was a toy gun in my hands once again. But when I advanced it and shot it, it waved me back and forth. So then I knew it wasn't a toy gun anymore.' He looks into the distance. 'Most of the time, the commanders gave orders to the little ones to do execution. They thought that would keep us brave.' "
COLUMNS BY COLLEEN ROSS:
December 29, 2005
Failing grade for academic freedom in Egypt
November 2, 2005
How much is the afterlife worth?
July 19, 2005
Planting the seeds for an agricultural revolution
June 23, 2005
Health insurance a lifesaver in Ghana
May 9, 2005
The insidious traffic in children
April 22, 2005
The country’s protectors?
March 22, 2005
Ghanaian women fight back
February 22, 2005
Travelling by Tro-tro
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