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Category Archives: Accra

Moving to Ghana? 1000 ways to be an Expat.

April 22, 2016by Chris 17 Comments

Over the years I have received many emails asking about expat life in Ghana. I appreciate that information about life in West Africa is hard to come by. Beyond gushy tales […]

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Accra, Africa, expat, Ghana, life, Uncategorized

Looking to go out in style? Ghana’s fantasy coffins.

April 19, 2015by Chris 6 Comments

From the country that brought you Azonto music and kente cloth, today let’s enjoy the exuberance of a fantasy coffin! To say that funerals are a big deal in Ghana, […]

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Accra, places to visit in Ghana

Sodom and Gomorrah: a day trip to hell

February 13, 2015by Chris 26 Comments

Over the last three years in Ghana I have seen desperately poor, tiny villages. I have seen the hopelessness of mentally ill, homeless people. I have seen simple, heart-breaking poverty. […]

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Accra, Africa, culture, expat, places to visit in Ghana

January…breaking the drought.

January 9, 2015by Chris 24 Comments

January is upon us with another season of Harmattan cloaking us in a grey blanket of dust. In my rapidly dwindling romantic notions of Africa, I am still surprised that […]

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Accra, life

Home is where… the internet connects automatically?

September 8, 2014by Chris 11 Comments

In Australia, mid year was that difficuilt time, nothing special going on, a wintery greyness punctuated by days of cold, clear sunshine. But there was no event to be marked […]

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Accra, Africa, Australia, expat, friends, Ghana, holidays, travelling with children, travelling with kids

Ebola still winning.

August 2, 2014by Chris 2 Comments

It’s been three weeks since I wrote about Ebola in West Africa. In this time infections and deaths have increased steadily (see the revised graph below), and the disease has […]

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Accra, ebola, expat, Ghana, Uncategorized, West Africa

Teaching an old dog new tricks

June 5, 2014by Chris 3 Comments

I’ve been MIA, I admit it. But you see, I’ve been out reinventing myself. Some days I’m a student, some days I’m a swimmer. Most days I’m a chauffer, short […]

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Accra, Africa, expat, school

Lest we forget

April 25, 2014by Chris 3 Comments

We woke in the darkness before dawn and drove through the rarely quiet streets of Accra this morning to Christiansborg War Cemetery to attend an ANZAC day dawn service. Like […]

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Accra, Australia, culture

Lessons learnt

April 15, 2014by Chris 14 Comments

Over the last few weeks I have been learning some important lessons, both from my recent university enrollment, and from the greatest teacher of them all…life. University has started and […]

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Accra, Africa, culture

WAWA – West Africa Wins Again*

March 21, 2014by Chris 24 Comments

I’m having one of those days, actually no, one of those weeks. A Ghana week. Now for most Ghanaians, a Ghana week, is just that, a week in Ghana. But […]

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Accra, expat, first world problems

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