Resteemed. Thanks for this alert @adetorrent. I really cant tell how it is at your end but it looks so serious here in Ghana. Doing public photography is even more dangerous just as vlogging. Most Ghanaians hate to see people taking photos of them and it is completely out of the topic to see you making videos of them or around them. We really try t sometimes hide in doing so but tree to get the best of what to share with the world. Big ups to @joythewanderer as well.
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I think that's the same across West Africa. I think people are still very concerned about privacy and personal space. There's also the history of exploitation - where people have come to "photograph" communities and then gone to do something else with the photos.
I think it's probably easier for people from outside the culture who visit and are unaware of the way video/photography is frowned upon, unlike someone like yourself who would be really sensitive to it.