the village

last week

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November 26th 2008
Hello all well it is my last week and what a month it has been. I am now starting to feel ready to come home. Every day there seems to be something that astonishes me. yesterday we were on a tro tro and my mum started chatting to a pregnant Ghanaian lady - when we got off the tro tro she took us to the village clinic where she is going to have her baby - we talked with the midwife on duty ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Accra

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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