Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 95

Ghana, 1968. When The Flood Came: New challenge for Keta's elderly. The rains certainly came in their torrents, leaving in their deluge a gigantic loss of property and life. Ghana has seldom seen worse wet season with comparable damage. The floods of the months of June and July swept through an unprepared nation with a frightening hurricane breaking hamlets and huts, houses and churches.