Moving to Ghana? 1000 ways to be an Expat.
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 […]
Category Archives: Accra
Looking to go out in style? Ghana’s fantasy coffins.
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, […]
Sodom and Gomorrah: a day trip to hell
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. […]
January…breaking the drought.
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 […]
Home is where… the internet connects automatically?
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 […]
Ebola still winning.
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 […]
Teaching an old dog new tricks
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 […]
Lest we forget
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 […]
Lessons learnt
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 […]
WAWA – West Africa Wins Again*
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 […]
six degrees north 