Muskets are part of celebrating here -- funerals, weddings, new appointments of chiefs. If people are happy they are shooting guns! (Don't worry mom - there aren't bullets, it's just gunpowder)
If you play with fire... February 3rd 2008 If you play with fire....
An Introduction to the Fire Festival in North Ghana
Jan 18th was a week of firsts. I had never been to a Chief’s Palace - and I had never been to a fire festival. Ghana has a democratically elected system of governance - but every area is also ruled by a Chief who handles all sorts of traditional matters.
One of my co-workers and I were walking by the Chief’s Palac ... read more
Africa » Ghana » Northern » Tamale 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 ... ... read more
I\'m from Regina Saskatchewan Canada but I\'m currently in Tamale (Northern Ghana) in West Africa working with Journalists for Human Rights. ... full info