Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library

Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career -- and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson in the Dikan Center in the capital city of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He

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Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.

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