Background: Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the constitution in 1981 and a ban on political parties. A new constitution, restoring multiparty politics, was approved in 1992. Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS, head of state since 1981, won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR, who defeated former Vice President Atta MILLS in a free and fair election, succeeded him.
July 8th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi The challenge was answered. Here is a cool little Google Earth snapshot of the communities, although Google did not get Krobo or Nkwanta's locations right, but other than that it is a good portrait of ... 1 photos[full story]
July 7th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi Don't worry Mom, this one is strictly observational.
Last weekend I hitched a ride back from the Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary in the back of an NGO's pickup. As we rolled into Techiman I noticed ... [full story]
July 5th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi This week one of the comments left here came courtesy of the official gardener of this blog, whose tomatoes are the stuff of blue-ribbon legend back home, and it mentioned giving Google Earth a workou ... [full story]
July 5th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi Happy birthday America. Yeah, I'm a day late, but I was toasting you last night with a few other Americans, celebrating my return to Kumasi, so let's call it close enough
The field work concluded y ... [full story]
June 28th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti Following are some excerpts from the book, Honey I Dunked the Kids, by Phil Callaway.
Children are more likely to follow your feet than your lips.
You can give without loving but you can’t ... [full story]
June 21st 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi Ok, enough complaining about this week, it was also the week I found out about the MTN code. MTN is my cell phone company here, and on Monday I was with my co-worker, complaining about my mintues runn ... [full story]
June 21st 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi As the copying machine whirs along with copy after copy of housing finance questionnairres, it almost feels luxurious to be sitting still here typing again, just an hour away from being free from work ... [full story]
June 20th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi Or something like that. I always worried about starting a blog and following the "post, post, post" then "nothing, nothing, nothing" pattern of 99% of these things. But while it looks like that has ha ... [full story]
June 13th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi One of my favorite commercials in the US is from a few Super Bowls ago, by UPS. It has three guys in shirt and tie in a closed office dancing to "Push It" by Salt 'n Pepa. The boss bursts in, the musi ... [full story]
June 13th 2008Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi After a very busy week arranging logistics for the three week market research project on housing finance we will be starting on Monday, I am a bit under the weather. I'm pretty sure it is due to the w ... [full story]
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