
How a professor found her calling in Ghana by bringing hundreds of Northeastern students to West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana—Vanessa Johson grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, but when she first stepped on the tarmac of the airport in Accra in 2006 it felt like Ghana had called her—like in the W.E.B. Du Bois poem. “I just got this feeling,” she says. “All of two weeks [of …