

Abroad Thoughts from Home
One thing which I admired hugely about the country was that, although many people have very little, they were more likely to be singing prai


Solo in Accra
For the first time, either going into, or walking or driving past, anything which looks at all like a bar, there are a lot of women here as


On the Volta
He is a bad-tempered little dictator (well, not all THAT little actually – he’s far bigger than the others, probably because he gets to eat


City of the Ants
... when I stopped to look at one, the ONLY thing it had was Bibles. Some were beautiful leather-bound editions, some paperback for everyday


Kukum, Kumasi, and beyond
Then our friend makes a spoon out of a bit of shell with more delicate machete work, and breaks the whole thing open – we scoop the flesh wi


The weekend oddessey begins
The most memorable part is going down into the male slave pens. Dark, cramped, and getting uncomfortably hot from the body heat of even a ha