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,
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2015/04/19/looking-to-go-out-in-style-ghanas-fantasy-coffins/
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.
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2015/02/13/sodom-and-gomorrah-a-day-trip-to-hell/
This morning I am sitting in my new office, a little space tucked off my bedroom, with windows on each side which allows the breeze (and no doubt the harmattan
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2015/01/15/simple-pleasures-and-small-mercies/
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
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2015/01/09/january-breaking-the-drought/
{TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa, 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 dange...
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2014/02/07/tgia-lets-take-a-drive/
It’s amazing the difference 200kms can make. We’ve been living in Accra now for three weeks. School has started. I am no longer terrified of Tettah Quarshrie interchange. We have
https://sixdegreesnorth.me/2014/02/05/life-in-accra-lost-on-tettah-quarshie/