View from my balcony

"Show your loyalty to the Black Stars"

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June 14th 2010
Accra is in a frenzy. There is nothing like a game of football to bring a country together. World Cup craziness has taken over and it seems like you’d be hard pressed to find a car on the road that doesn’t have a Ghanaian flag proudly hung on the windows, hung out of the trunk, hung on the rear-view mirror, being waved out the window... Ghana played Serbia yesterday afternoon and became the f ... read more

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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