Ghana Storytelling Journey

Friends of Adaklu is a Ghanaian-led nonprofit working in partnership with communities in the Adaklu region. Their relationships with local leaders, educators, Elders, and young people make this experience possible and help ensure that the journey is grounded in genuine community exchange.

Weston Cox, founder of BabaGigi, joins Campfire Tales as a partner in this pilot journey. BabaGigi is developing translation hardware and software intended to make multilingual conversation more immediate, natural, and accessible.

Weston will help guide the field testing of the technology, observe how it performs in real-world conversations, gather participant and community feedback, and identify ways the system can better support meaningful communication and the sharing of generational stories across languages.

Participants will therefore be more than travelers. They will also be collaborators in an early international pilot of technology designed to reduce language barriers without diminishing the humanity of face-to-face conversation.

 This Campfire Tales departure will serve as a beta test of BabaGigi’s translation hardware and software.

During appropriate parts of the journey, participants and community partners will have opportunities to:

• Use the technology in everyday conversations 
• Test it during storytelling and educational activities 
• Evaluate accuracy, ease of use, and conversational flow 
• Identify cultural and practical challenges 
• Share feedback directly with Weston Cox 
• Contribute to the future development of the platform 

The technology will support the experience, not dominate it. Human relationships, listening, curiosity, and cultural respect remain at the center of the journey. We will be exploring the land as well as its culture, visiting various communities, partaking in local art experiences, and gaining a deep understanding of Ghana's beautiful and sometimes troubling history.