Introduction week in Accra, in front of the office of the local partner organisation
Here come the drums!
We are learning the "fumbe fumbe"
The drum master in his element
The corresponding dance
Tour through Accra
Independence Square
Accra market
Nkrumah mausoleum
After the military overthrew Nkrumah, the first president, his statue somewhat suffered
Nkrumah's grave
Arts and Crafts market, one of the hundred "shops" selling... well... arts and crafts
cooking time
You see these reptiles at least once daily
Ghanaian food, yummy; very fatty
the water was warmer than a regular swimming pool in Europe...
Ready to depart for the projects
While dropping off one of the volunteers, the bus had some visitors
children... always keen to be photographed
our bus
two kids from my compound, the right one's my host brother
the picture was taken by my host brother...
Farming: (front to back) Sakwa, my host sister, Essi, a girl from my compound who helps my host mother with everything, and Kofi Aboa, a boy from a different family at the same compound
In front the root farm (cassave...) and on the right an orange farm from somebody else
On the way to a different farm
Waiting for the two girls to pick oranges and plantain, my host brother and I had nothing better to do than to climb on a tree
My host father in church
My host father in church... again Everybody really likes to be photographed over here
My host father in church...again... this time with his friends
One of them's the priest and one of them just preaches a lot. I don't know who's who:)
Cape Coast Castle, the epicentre of slave trade in early colonial times
Outside the Door Of No Return, where the slaves touched African soil for the last time in their lives
Into the dungeon...
Two German volunteers and their coordinator at Hans Cottage Botel, where we stayed for the weekend
Kakum National Park
A proper rain forest with the only canopy-walkway in Africa (maybe even in the world)
Beauty in its purest form
Some strange root
Outside Kakum
Back at Hans Cottage (that's a living croc by the way)
A monkey sanctuary close by, set up by a dutch couple
(from left to right) judith, Clara and Lisa, volunteers from Akroso - just like me - and our Dutch host
Akroso in the morning
Musah, the guy I met on the trotro, is the 3rd one from the left, his brother, deputy general secretary of the NDC party, is 2 further to the right, the others are his political staff
Raw diamonds
Processed diamonds (worth 500$-1000$)
They obviously wanted to be photographed
One of the many diamond mining plants from colonial times
Soon after Ghana's independence the company went bust
