Sara Kunda: A Gambian Homecoming Part II
byTay’s Toma is little Sutay, the child she helped pull from her friend and sister, Fatou, 10 years ago on a fateful moonlit night….
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Sara Kunda: A Gambian Homecoming Part I
byThe pre-dawn sky is as star-shiny night-black as it was when we crawled under our mosquito net a few hours ago, at the end…
The Gambia, Up the River
byOur first stop is Tendaba Training Camp, where we arrive after 10 pm, exhausted but excited as Tay runs into old friends and I…
Map: Where in the World is The Gambia?
byIt’s right here, a splinter of river and river bank surrounded on all sides by Senegal. The Gambia is a Mandinka island within a…
Gorée to The Gambia
byA 15-hour layover in Dakar, Senegal provides just enough time to sleep a few hours in the dismal airport hotel before cruising through Dakar’s…
Moving On: To The Gambia
byAnother chapter ends, another begins. Two months in Ghana, two months of working and seeing, of looking back on what we’ve seen, looking around…
Plant a Tree in Ghana: Contribute to the Keta Coconut Project
byA while back, I reported on the devastation of the trees in the village of Keta as a result of tidal surges. The community…
New Ghana Youth Blog!
byCongratulations to the PPAG Young & Wise Media Committee for creating the Ghana Youth Blog!
Buying Bread
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That I am ready to go home does not matter to Africa, which persists in being everywhere I look and all around me.
Cape Coast, Canopy, and College Kids
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The dust has not settled from our trip north when we reconfigure our daypacks and we set out before sunrise, searching for transport to Cape Coast. There’s not much traffic in Accra before six a.m. on a Saturday morning, not the kind that grinds to a halt for 15 minutes at a time, gridlocked in noxious exhaust, as happens in the afternoons. No, the air is actually cool and the streets gray and empty as we go from the STC bus station to Kwame Nkumrah Circle, then to Kaneshie Market, until we finally find a westbound tro-tro and climb in for the 3-hour cruise.