G-lish: Ghana travel guide and inspiration

It is a 278-page, instantly downloadable PDF guide to travel in Ghana.

This story continues on from Part I on Wednesday. Read Facing up to an Arms Dealer in the Ivory Coast, Part 1 before continuing on to this second half of the story.
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The vehicle left the station in The Ivory Coast around 6 am. We arrived in Ghana in a border town in the western region [...]

By Godwin. This is a story of something that happened to me almost 10 years ago now.
In 2001, after graduating from senior high school, I decided to travel to the Ivory Coast with a friend to look for a job so I could raise some money towards my university education. I went with [...]

Introducing an excellent blogger for writers, artists, travelers and fringe dwellers to boot.
Chris Guillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity shows that one need not adhere to conventional notions of “how life should be” to live a meaningful and satisfying life. I had been reading his Blog and admiring his simple, pull-no-punches writing style for a month [...]

Today I published a post at our other blog, This is Ghana, in honour of Africa’s greatest living woman, Wangari Maathai, and partly to urge Ghanaian women to question the status quo in Ghana from a female and environmental perspective. Check it out and let us know what you think. Do you know Ghana’s Wangari Maathai?

This is the second post in our series about making a difference. If you want to read the all, head over to our page Are you MaD?
There has been a lot of buzz about micro-finance in the past few years, not without reason. That statistic about living on a dollar or two dollars a day [...]

I write a little for Global Voices Online on matters related to Ghana. What distinguishes this news and information source is that it’s written by ordinary people like me living on the ground, close to stories that they write about. Also, their focus is social media like blogs, facebook, twitter, and so on. GV has [...]