Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM This Inspiring Doc Has Ghana’s Youth Jumping to New Heights In an interview with co-directors Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide on their short film ode to the girlhood Ghanaian game ‘Ampe’. ADVERTISEMENT Longtime friends and collaborators Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide have set the intention to make space for Black girl joy in mainstream media. ADVERTISEMENT And the Columbus, Ohio-based West African duo are doing so through their debut short film Ampe: Leap into The Sky, Black Girl. Ghanaian-American Owusu introduced Nigerian-American Oluwamuyide to the childhood game ‘Ampe’, and the two creators set their sights on highlighting the beauty within girlhood in West Africa. ADVERTISEMENT ‘Ampe’ is considered to be of Ghanaian descent, though various versions of the game exist across the continent. The girls

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Featured Ghana Meet the Ghanaian Biker Community Led by Women From riding motorcycles as a hobby to pushing charitable causes, Biker Girls Gh are always in motion. ADVERTISEMENT In Ghana, there is a staunch stereotype that comes with riding a motorcycle. The notion persists that people who ride them are vagabonds, criminals, and social misfits. ADVERTISEMENT This mindset has slowly festered and is now deep-rooted in the typical Ghanaian society. Aside from the negatives, there is the fear for life when one mounts a motorcycle and, as such, many Ghanaian homes have been against motorbikes. ADVERTISEMENT Enter Jessica Opare-Saforo, who is redefining what this means with Biker Girls Gh, a women-led biker collective she founded in 2018. In a fairly conservative society like Ghana, to see women riding around free