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The Harmattan comes and goes, but when it’s bad the visibility drops to a few hundred meters and you can taste the dust in the air. In an odd way it reminds me of the fogs we had in Newhaven when I was a child, the visibility was poor and you tasted salt in the [...]
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I bought 1000 Litres of water today. I’ve never bought that much water in one go before. At least I think it was 1000 Litres, the guys filled my polytank pretty quickly. My water situation had been too good to last – water continuously available for nearly 5 weeks, and then last Thursday the shower [...]
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After 5 months in Ghana I think I’m allowed to ask the question, “What do I actually miss from the UK?” Before I left I posted a blog on what I expected to miss. Now I’m here I don’t pine too much for anything in particular, but occasionally I wistfully muse about home luxuries.
Reliable basic [...]
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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks reading about how Europeans came to be so disastrously involved in Africa. The descent from the noble anti-slavery traditions of Livingstone to the effectively slave state of Belgian Congo, and forced labour across most of colonised Africa including British colonies makes a depressing read. At least two of [...]
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On Friday I was prevented from paying my electricity bill due to a power cut. Ironically while my water supply has been pretty good for several weeks the electricity has been more problematic, with 5, 6 or 7 hour power cuts over the weekend and on Monday and Tuesday. You get so used to reliable [...]
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Blogging is an enjoyable, if slightly odd experience. Rather like shouting into a dark room that people enter and leave invisibly, occasionally shouting back a comment. I think I know who some of my audience are, some of the time, but am not entirely certain. I know that most of my immediate family and at [...]
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It’s been a fairly quiet week this, the only native fauna I’ve seen have been the usual geckos, goats and guinea fowls. Even the joy of watching Ghana beat Nigeria Sunday evening was dissipated by the disappointment of seeing them knocked out by Cameroon. Ironically the two final matches that everyone predicted for the cup [...]
I will admit that I bunked off work Friday. On Thursday night I went to a football match with Fred (a VSO from Kenya), Sarah from Bolga (who blogs), Sarah’s daughter Jes and Agnieszka from Navrongo. After the match Sarah insisted we all went to Mole on Friday and who was I to argue? So [...]
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Normally Monday night in Tamale is quiet, very quiet. In fact it, except for the absence of rolling brushwood, it could serve as a set for one of those creepy scenes in a western where the hero faces the villain in the middle of a deserted town. But not this Monday, instead it was more [...]
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