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A Library for the Future

One recent Friday morning, in the library at the Dikan Center, Nana Asomani and his friend and colleague Tiana switched from looking at their computer screens to conversations about some work on which they are collaborating. Both had traveled from different parts of Accra to experience the newly opened photography center. At least once a week, they visit to flip through the thousands of books organized floor to ceiling in the center’s impressive library. It is an oasis in a city as fast-paced

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