Sunday = Labadi Pleasure Beach

I always felt that my Sunday Boring Sunday in Belfast was the extreme in Sunday shop closings. There, nothing is open on Sunday except church. Well Accra now ties with Belfast in its ability to roll up even the sidewalks on the seventh day.

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Yep, Lost Yet Again

Where am I now? Where are we going? And why doesn’t he stop and ask for directions? I know this could be said to me on any number of occasions when I’m driving, but right now I’m asking it of my taxi driver and the response isn’t heartening. He’s clueless.

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African Home Delivery

Its Accra, Ghana, and you need sponges, or pans, or some other domestic item. You could spend half the day at the market, looking for just the right item, or you could be much more efficient, and let it come to you. Here, like the rest of Africa in general, the market comes to you as easily as you go to it.

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Traveling on the Gov’ment’s Dime

It’s 10:14am on a Thursday here in Accra and I am poolside with a beer and and a fellow business traveler. She, like me, is here for work and we’re both soaking up the sun and the suds as we whack away at our respective keyboards and key ideas.

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I Wanna be African Happy

What can I say? I love Africa.
Sub-Sahara Black Africa. East and West Africa to be exact. The people are so nice, the land so rich, the life so good, I feel very happy here. I now know why Africa is Africa and by Western standards, undeveloped. By African standards, I think we in the West are the undeveloped ones.

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