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Hechtech produces long-form radio documentaries and dramas mostly from the Africa continent.

We are currently interviewing gods and spirits for a series on sanitation and gentrification in the Jamestown slum of Accra, capital of Ghana. Follow our progress here www.hechtech.com.

Below is a collection of some earlier work for US, UK and German radio broadcasters:  

Series

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Deutschsprachige Radio Features 
5 Pieces

eine Auswahl von Features von verschiedenen deutschen Sendern

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Invisible Governance 
8 Pieces

A series of radio documentaries on Ghana's spirituality

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Nigeria-Niger Food Trilogy 
3 Pieces

An exploration of the various snags and snares in Nigeria's food economy from farming to fast food.

Pieces

PILOT: Waste not want not
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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We meet the god Odum who says he can clean up the filth and pollution in Jamestown if we give him 2 million cedis. We bargain him down to 1 million...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:57
German Trailer
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Wir sprechen mit dem Gott Odum Kwaku, dessen Schrein sich in Jamestown befindet, einem Slum in der Innenstadt von Ghana. Der Gott behauptet, er wer...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Homowo Festival
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Different melodies from the Ga festival Homowo

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:12
A funeral in Ga Mashie
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Sounds from a funeral in Ga Mashie

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
A Ga ritual for twins part II
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Sounds from the ritual for twins in Jamestown

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: :47
A Ga ritual for twins
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Different sounds from the streets of Jamestown during the Ga ritual for twins

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:43
Priestess Otoo Ama singing
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Priestess Otoo Ama singing appellations for her god and husband Gyae Me

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:16
Tongues
From: Hechtech
Series: Invisible Governance
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Speaking in Tongues

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
Was uns nicht umbringt
From: Hechtech
Series: Deutschsprachige Radio Features
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Ghanas angesagter Slum Jamestown Im Zentrum von Ghanas Hauptstadt Accra liegt das Hafenviertel Jamestown. Obwohl völlig heruntergekommen, interes...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 52:59
Kriegsverbrecher Im Falschen Krieg (2014 Deutschlandkultur)
From: Hechtech
Series: Deutschsprachige Radio Features
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In Liberia tobte in den 1990er-Jahren ein brutaler Bürgerkrieg, für den Charles Taylor als Rebellenführer und später als Präsident mitverantwortlic...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 54:32

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