Speaking up from the slums

Headline Title: Speaking up from the slums 24 April 2012 An Amnesty International-supported radio project in Ghana and Kenya aims to challenge public perceptions of people living in slums and give inhabitants a platform to tell their storiesWhen business graduate Al Hassan Abdallah arrived in Accra in 2005, he struggled to find a room he could afford to live in. Like thousands of other Ghanaians, he ended up in Old Fadama, one of the capital’s largest slums, popularly referred to as ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’. Seven years later, he now has a teaching job but still lives…

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