June 2011 archives
It’s day five here in Ghana and I’m enjoying myself immensely. In fact, I’m enjoying myself so much that my cheeks are actually sore from the gigantic grin which has been consistently plastered across my face. Today, while posing for a group picture at a local school, I couldn’t even hold my smile without my [...]
There are many reasons I keep traveling. It’s not always easy. It can be expensive. And it’s a health hazard for sure (take a look at the long list of shots on my vaccine card and you’ll know what I mean). Nonetheless, the good always seems to outweigh the bad and I keep on packing [...]
“But you can’t have development without information.” Emanuel Mwinila Yuori A week into our time in Ghana and we’ve already had the opportunity to learn from many communication scholars and media professionals. We’ve talked about the perils and rewards of undercover investigative reporting, discussed the state of Ghanaian women in journalism, and pondered the impact [...]
As I sit here on our front porch, I am exposing myself to my first protracted encounter with potentially malarial arthropods in Ghana. A toxic cocktail of permanone, OFF! and garlic pills have warded off the evil skeeters up until now, but the promise of a (relatively) consistent internet connection and the lovely sound of [...]
I faced my greatest fear in Ghana, and I survived. It wasn’t spiders, or getting hit by a taxi, or the language barrier, or the first day of my internship. It was a trotro.
We had some free time after our lectures today so Jake and I decided to go on an adventure. After cutting across a soccer field and down an extremely overgrown path we arrived at the American House Road Market. It’s amazing how popular you can be just from the color of your skin. We were [...]
So our house is located in a middle-upper scale neighborhood in a section of Accra called East Legon. Since there are hardly any formal names for streets here, the locals have appropriately named the street we live on American House Road. Our “villa” is surprisingly large and spacious, especially compared to the majority of Ghanaian [...]
The past few days I have definitely been seeing the darker side of Accra. When we went on the bus tour of the main part of the city, the smells were overwhelming (not in a good way). Seeing people passed out along the streets was a harsh reminder of the poverty that many in this [...]
I was mesmerized by the baby sleeping in a sling against her back. Most Ghanaian babies are cute, but her child was particularly adorable with a slight bubble of drool resting against his purple lips and curly baby fro dampened with sweat. I stopped to take a picture of this baby and as I did [...]