Excerpts from my journal: July 26, 2012 It’s a Snap I had a big smile on my face after shaking hands with Siska, our host at Stumble Inn resort in Elmina. For a month I’ve been trying to master the Ghanaian handshake and was finally able to pull off “the snap” with Siska’s help. The […]
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Timely Reading
“A Geography of Time – the temporal misadventures of a social psychologist” was timely reading as I attempt to reconcile the differences between Ghana time and my own westernized tempo. It occurs to me that culture shock is mostly about adjusting our pace to that of our new surroundings. Or at least to understanding […]
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The Wave
Every couple of weeks or so, we walk over to the pizza garden at Nik’s for Sunday “cook’s night out.” We usually take a short cut through what’s left of the Kumasi Forest Reserve to avoid the traffic of Melcom Road and Ahodwo Roundabout. Our neighborhood was once a lush forest reserve as indicated on […]
While anticipating Amy’s visit to Kumasi, one of the things I looked forward to the most was introducing her to the fine art of shopping in Africa. I couldn’t wait to bring her to the markets overflowing with produce and the little shops we’ve come to love for their selection of Obroni offerings. At the […]
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ICC
A New York Times Op Ed headline Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime about the International Crimes Court and the problem of “a vast and unregulated system of extractive capitalism” initially caught my eye today because I live in Africa, but as I read it I saw that the problem identified and solution offered would benefit all continents on […]