Ghana / 2019 / 24mins / Documentary / Twi, Dangbe, Kusaal and English

For two decades, the late Awudu Tijani voluntarily took on the arduous task of directing traffic in some of Accra’s most knotty and unmonitored intersections. Though Tijani was homeless, afflicted by substance abuse, and survived solely on the benevolence of motorists, his resilient spirit and childhood dream of becoming a police officer drove him back to the road every day.

Shakirudeen Akinyemi

Shakirudeen has worked in the non-profit sector for over four years and earned a Bachelor of Science in Development Planning from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. While volunteering as a documentary filmmaker with the Ghana YMCA, in collaboration with Weltfilme.org (Berlin) under the Make A Difference Project, he led a team to produce a short documentary Life on the Road, the story of a Ghanaian patriot who directed traffic voluntarily for twenty years. The film has become a seminal work that represents the only record of a true hero who would have been forgotten had his life’s story not been documented. Learn More