I bet when you think cocoa you think South America. Who doesn’t? In fact, 70% of the world’s cocoa supply begins life in West Africa: 20% in Ghana, 40% in The Ivory Coast, and the balance is supplied from Cameroon … Continue reading
20 minute photo journey between Elmina and Cape Coast Continue reading
I came across a fantastic little article at Tree Hugger about social entrepreneurism, a phenomenon that is transforming the economic–and therefore social–well being of communities in developing countries. Basically, business is used to address social issues and income generating projects … Continue reading
I was wandering up the road to work in regional Ghana minding my own business when I shouted “STOP!” I knew that stylish, red, raw silk shoulder bag hanging alongside a motley range of developed-world seconds. And those daisies! I … Continue reading
We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Safer in Ghana than just about anywhere on earth there. A few months after arriving in Ghana … Continue reading
We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Post-election jubilation there. Says it all: NDC supporters demonstrating their feeling after the electoral commission announced the … Continue reading
We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Made in Ghana Limousines, TVs and much more… there. He didn’t win the presidency, but Dr Paa … Continue reading
You may be asking, what on this bountiful blue planet is fufu?
It’s a staple of the Ghanaian diet, and other parts of Africa besides, that involves mashing boiled vegetables–plantain, cassava or yam–in a huge wooden mortar with a 4-foot long blunt-ended pole hewn from a tree until the vegetables become a sticky pale ball. It takes two people. It takes a long time. (Sounds like a relationship). Continue reading
We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read I say: “Afehyia paaaaa” (a-fish-i-a-paaaaah!) there. And you reply: “Afeenko mbe tuyee daa!” That means I’m wishing … Continue reading
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