Backflips to the Sea

The Beach, The Sea, Machetes and Poetry

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May 5th 2006
Hi. I've been living on the beach for a month. For all of April I rented a room at this excellent little hotel-camping place, Big Milly's Backyard (www.bigmilly.com), in the village of Kokrobite just outside Accra, Ghana. I was there primarily to write, which I did, a play, but also to read, and to swim daily in the ocean, and to lie on the beach and listen to the primevally perfect sound of the ... 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