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
The antelope God
It obviously was a plank at one time, but it has seen better days, and is now warped, mis-shapen and worn in various places, with just the v
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
Ghana 2017 (arrival)
Fish is drying and being smoked on the beach, and people are again laughing, dancing (even the boys playing kick-about are dancing when they
