Off the plane!

Akwaaba!!! Welcome to Ghana

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February 14th 2008
Ah akwaaba, a word that I have heard many times already. Welcome, welcome to our country. Sweet abruni, will you marry me? Ah, oo, no...no thank you! I say as I continue on my way to be greeted and thanked and asked to buy by another. Ghana hits you as you as a wave of heat and smell. The sharp almost bittersweet sent of fresh cut sap, gasoline and sweat. From the moment we got on to the plane fro ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Legon

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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