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Tafi sacred monkey village and Wli waterfall!
... concentrated along the coast near Accra and Kumasi. There are over 50 languages and tribes within Ghana. The official language of Ghana is English but the two other main languages spoken here are called Twi (pronounced chwee) and Ewe (pronounced e-vay). Twi is a dialect of a group of languages called Akan, spoken mainly in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Other dialects in that group include Asante Twi, Akwapim Twi, Akyem, and Fanti. Twi is ...
Humble Beginnings.
... practice session we drove to the town Ashiama to exercise what we learned. This was somewhat intimidating because we were all sensitive to the fact that we were dropping in on the funeral service of a person we didn’t know and we would be performing a dance in front of the entire community that we learned fifteen minutes ago. In the end everything was fine and we learned a lot about the culture.
Funerals are a ...
W.E.B. Dubois Center for Pan Africanism
... showed me the way to the right tro-tro which was the one going to Burma Camp. He said he had a friend from Iowa whom he met while in the Peace Corps so he was glad to meet another Iowan. On the tro-tro I sat next to a soldier and he showed me where to get off for the Dubois Center and said no tro-tros stop in this section of town and the only way back is to hail a taxi. I was in Cantonments, the really rich part of Accra that looked kind ...
Ghana und was ich hier eigentlich so mache
... erwähnen, dass ich leider keinem eine Postkarte schicken kann. Denn eine Post oder gar Ansichtskarten gibt es hier nicht wirklich. Es gibt nicht mal Briefkästen. Wenn jemand das unbändige Bedürfnis verspüren sollte mir zu schreiben, müsstet ihr das über die Arbeit erledigen. Dahin aber bitte keine Pakete, weil das alles "dienstlich" sein muss. Aber ich denke wir werden auch 3 Monate ohne Postkarten auskommen. Dafür gibt es ja ...
Autism, Slavery and Teacher's Union
... br> Last stop of the day was at GNAT which stands for the Ghanaian National Association of Teachers. This is the union for all teachers K - Senior Secondary School (SSS) in Ghana. Their headquarters is here in Accra but they also have regional offices around the country. Interestingly they also have a hostel attached where teachers can stay if they are in Accra for business or a conference. The building was quite big and pretty posh. They had carpets, ...


