Tema Station

Harbours and markets

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July 21st 2010
Wednesday 21st July We decided to take today out as a sightseeing day so off after a lazy morning towards the harbour area of Accra in a district called Jonestown. We first needed to take a trotro to one of the main central bus stations called Tema Station. Although ostensibly a bus station, Tema Station could easily be mistaken for a market. On all the bus stands there are market traders, mor ... 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