Country Info
- Accra
- Capital
- Cedi (GHC)
- Currency
- 19,894,014
- Population
- GH
- Country Code
Accra Slideshow
Accra
Travel Blogs from Accra, Ghana
A Friend Named Junior
... . Junior is not a person I will forget. Ghana was another incredible experience, but completely different than South Africa. It has me confused, but it also has me motivated ...
M.O.P. At Kissemah Village
... Agoe to allow the orphaned and disadvantaged children of Kissemah Village to have an education. I met Kwame when I first arrived in Accra and brought to him a suitcase full of supplies like school uniforms and books for the children. Since then I have ...
superflous ramble- tro tro and nearly arrested
... aussies at a place in the mountain region. gonna be intense) But then i nearly get arrested. See, there are no rubbish bins in ghana. people throw all their shit on the floor. but not when there are police around because its illegal. so i get off my tro ...
First day of "Work"
... , about and hour and a half out of Accra tomorrow at 7am. This was an unusual request as tomorrow is a holiday in Ghana. But he was offering to drive me to this place where a group of nurses and students were putting on an education campaign ...
Bar Fights and Motorbikes
... couldn’t tell which one. It was too dark outside. So, that’s that. I saw my first ever bar fight in Ghana. It was pretty cool. Eventually, Brother and a couple of other guys intervened and pulled the guys apart. Tuesday night, Brother and ...
Short Update
... got it down. Then Seshie and I went to the internet café. When we got there, they said that they didn’t have a signal. That’s Ghana for ya’, lol. So we went to rent some movies. We went back home to watch a movie, but I was so tired. I ...
Beach Bummin with the Rastafarians
... end of that journey but once we arrived I was completely impressed. After my horrifying experience at LaBadi Beach in Accra, Kokrobite was everything I had been missing. While LaBadi Beach was dirty, trash ridden and plagued with ware-hawkers ...
Back in Accra - End of Week 1
... most of last week on the road with the entrepreneur of a cook stove business, Toyola Energy that I’m working with in Ghana. The company makes cook stoves from scrap metal and distributes them using a microfinance model which is very unique in Ghana. ...
House Hunting
Looked for places to live. One house had a cage upstairs to lock everyone in??? A little sad to look at houses fenced in with guards but saw some good prospects. Went to the Mali Embassay to get a visa and she suggested I just put my two ...
New flying experience: A cultural observation
My trip to Ghana was about 19 hours. I traveled from Chicago to Accra via Amsterdam. My flight from Amsterdam to Accra had mostly black African people passengers. In all my travels, I have never seen so many African people ...
Computer error
So there i went to Airport to go back to Thailand when low and behold no booking. They told me to come back tomorrow so off we headed to Krokobite to catch Afrodesias (a funk band from San fransisco) last show. We even ended getting up and jamming on ...
Ghana
Left Burkino Faso and basically went directly south to Ghana and then south through Ghana to Accra. On the way stopped at Mole National Park and went in search of elephants again. However, no luck. Elusive little blighters!!!!! Did ...
Hygiene
You left hand is your designated wiping hand. Everyone in Ghana knows this. Therefore everything is done with your right hand. You accept thing with your right hand. You give everything with your right hand. You eat with your right hand. Most places do ...
the late night drumming sesh
... of whom are from Burkina Faso and freaking awesome. Joeva and Arouna have been friends for a while from her first visit to Ghana. Arouna makes Kora's for a living (see pictures) and is an amazing musician. A kora is something close to a banjo mixed with ...
Yagga Yo
February 1- February 16 Route Traveled Ghana Kokrobite - Takoradi - Busua - Elmina - Kokrobite This part of my trip can be rounded up into one basic theme, hanging out on the beach and living easy. In ...
Weeks 4 & 5 - I'm Not Your Baby
... to say hello, and maybe I'll be the odd one out - saying hello when it's entirely unnecessary. Time will tell. My next blog will probably be from outside Ghana, so until then, I hope everything's going well at home, and I await your updates ...
Thoughts of Kawaida
... of the human spirit; or perhaps it means nothing. I really don’t know. I am writing this while in a hostel in Accra, Ghana. This week I will be traveling up to Sevelugu (about 15 miles north of Tamale) to work in a community hospital until June. I ...
Supercoach (Craig)
... stayed in the game thanks to 7 penalties then finished them off in a penalty shootout. Some may say dodgy referee’s in Ghana, I just say justice done given our handicap. Game 2 was a bit more serious. We actually ended up playing another local 1st ...
New Roommates/I have to move at the last minute!?
So today I was woken up by Quershie who informed me that there would be 3 boys coming today and that I would be moving out. Then he told Lizzie the same thing, however Lizzie then said she could move in to the room with Callie and ...
Taxis and Thunderstorms
... result in roaming around the city for an hour. Oh and btw, Accra is huge and is divided up into sections like East Legon, Accra etc, don’t get them confused... Baha an adventure indeed. Tomorrow the girls and I are going to Labadi Pleasure Beach. I ...
Have arrived in Ghana
... - too complex to really bother trying to explain - Leslie and I have wound up renting a room in a house in Accra. Through a friends' friends' friend, we're now living with an east indian nonprofit worker, a filipino christian non profit ...
Office with a view
This past week I've been working from our office in Prampram. Prampram is a small fishing village in southern Ghana. We established a Fair Trade textile workshop at the beginning of the year and plan on hiring 200 women in the next year or so. My task is ...
akwaaba?
... I was the only one in it. So we begin driving (not before a man came to the window, wished me an Akwaaba! *Welcome!* to Ghana and asked for some money). About a mile out from the airport, the shuttle breaks down. We haul my obscene amounts of luggage and ...
Muggings in Accra: Snapshot of Modern Ghana
... then the gleaming new buildings, sleek cars, numerous banks and fast cheap air conditioned Internet cafe make a contrasting statement about Accra. Ghana is rich by West African standards. I hadn't realised this 4 years ago, and indeed then it possibly ...
Work and other such things
... . Yesterday I fell in love with one of the little NGOs. The founder of it, a lady of about 60 years old, Bertha, is from Ghana but she was educated in Pitsburg. She came back after working there for a while to help the people in the area where she is ...