The Beach

Week One Update: It’s Ghana Be Great!

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September 23rd 2008
Ok, having been on the receiving end of one of these travel post things, I know how excruciating it can be (“Ohmigod, outer Mongolia is, like, the coolest place, and like I’m always totally drunk and we saw this, like, amazing building and now I’m digging a well”), but it’s dawning on me that I may have to run the risk of writing one. For one thing, some of you have actually requested ... read more

Africa » Ghana

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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