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 The Hugging Tree there.

That’s what I call it anyway–that one at the top. I noticed it while watching the football. There are some amazing Boabab trees in this area. In fact, one of them is considered a God which means I’m not allowed to photograph it. Fair enough. There was a goat nailed to it last week–a sacrifice. It is huge and old and you just want to make a house in the branches and go to sleep–if it weren’t for the goat…and mosquitoes… Fortunately, many of its brothers and sisters are just as huge and awesome. Virtually every second tree is a Boabab and they’re hanging about every fifty metres or so, everywhere…