Searching for the lost treasures of the Gold Coast
Yesterday some friends and I drove out of Accra and into the fertile, intensely green valley to the north. Our destination was the large town of Nsawam and we were […]
Category Archives: culture
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. […]
Bloody Hell! Ebola.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Formerly known as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF). Currently enjoying its worst season ever (for people, not the virus) in West Africa, with over 800 infections and […]
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 […]
TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa
{TGIA is my weekly look at the weird and wonderful things that happen when you’re living in Africa. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re a little dangerous, sometimes they’re a heady combination […]
TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa
This week’s TGIA is brought to you by all the colour, chaos and retail opportunities of Kejetia Market and a puppeteer I met there. Yesterday I was on one of […]
It’s beginning to look at lot like….BRAZIL!
It was with great excitement that we headed back to Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi for the Black Stars of Ghana vs Pharaohs of Egypt game last week. (How awesome are […]
TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa
I thought I’d start a little series along the lines of TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday. Nutty things happen here all the time. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re a […]
another trip to Kejetia market – the fabrics
I’ve had a rough few weeks of lets call it, cultural re-awakening. When you thought you had life in your foreign country under control, then the old culture shock creeps […]
