‘The Eyes of Ghana’ Team Digs Into the Documentary’s Unlikely Origins and Timeless Relevance: ‘It’s a Call to Courage’

For director Ben Proudfoot, “The Eyes of Ghana” began with what he thought was a simple question.

It was the summer of 2021. The documentarian had been sent by Unicef to Ghana to create a film about the history of the humanitarian organization. As he was riding in a van through the African nation’s capital, though, he saw the stone mausoleum for Ghana’s legendary revolutionary leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

“In a question that would change my life and bring us all here today, I asked, ‘Who is Kwame Nkrumah?’ And every Ghanaian in the car turned around and looked at me like I was a crazy person,” Proudfoot told Executive…