Category: Blog 12.2
Greater Accra marks a week of Mills' demise
By Kayla Albrecht and Schuyler Durham Originally published in Public Agenda on August 3, 2012 Tuesday, July 31, marked the one-week anniversary of the demise of former president, Prof John Evans Atta Mills. The residents of Accra observed this event at the Efua Sutherland’s Children’s Park during a regional celebration. Thousands of mourning Ghanaians gathered Read More …
First Impressions – Ghana and God
Published in Public Agenda on August 3, 2012 It was my second or third day here in Ghana when my fellow University of Oregon students and I took a trip to the W. E. B. Dubois Center. We toured the luxurious home, filled with artifacts of his incredible life. Finishing the tour in a gazebo Read More …
Tro Poem
Lauren and I were taking the tro home from work today and we saw this beautiful golden sun setting behind the Flagstaff House, Ghana’s parliament building. It was quite gorgeous, with gold and pink rays of light scattering all over the glassy building, and I went to lean over and snap a picture but quickly Read More …
The Canopy Walk and Cape Coast Castle
El Mina Castle
Some days are better than others
I like trotros. I like the feel of the city grit right out your window, humanity packed in like sardines hurtling through cars packed in like sardines. I like that the rich and the poor use them and that these things look like they are going to fall apart. This unique form of public/private transportation Read More …
Cape Coast Castle
The emotional intensity of Cape Coast Castle is nearly impossible to encapsulate with words. I could tell you that standing on layers of hardened human waste in a dark dungeon feels so much worse than the stone gutters running alongside, though hundreds of years of decay have caused the two to resemble each other in Read More …
A bit of a tease
So Group B has been up to some amazing things lately, so many that combined with the somewhat unreliable internet, we have a back up of blog posts waiting. Here are some photograph teasers of some of what is to come…
Perception, Ignorance and Crappy Gifts from the CIA
Visiting the burial site and memorial to Kwame Nkrumah, our tour guide said something that managed to reach beyond the colorless mental images of young Ghana breaking from colonial rule and strike home in the vibrant reality of the here and now. Thanks to an extensive tour of the memorial, I can now confidently inform Read More …
…Plane Landing
Flight ends and entire airplane empties, filing into a line that lasts hours and keeps growing through customs and guards in baby blue going “Tsss! Tsss!” to get your attention, like a snake. Outside we meet Catherine, Leslie and Doc Williams – an unknown face, but soon to be important landmark in the imagery of Read More …
Children, Trees, and a Wood Market.
The President is Dead
The streets were oddly quiet for the time of day. I had promised a street vendor that I would come back to buy a pineapple today. I had intended to keep that promise but it wasn’t the real reason I was in the streets this evening. President Mills is the first President of the 4th Read More …
Bus Tour of Accra and The University of Ghana
Group B's House
So here are some of the first images from Ghana group B. I hope everyone will enjoy our blog as much as they have Group 1’s blog roll. You can expect some serious blogging over the next 24 hours as we have lots of juicy content we are dying to share with everyone. Since we Read More …