Title: Anthony Lovat in Bolgatanga (
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The Bolga Bomber - 14/Jul/2011 09:07 - 4893 days ago
The‘Launch of Ramadan’ event is to be held, so the signboard proudly displays in bold lettering at the main roundabout in Bo...
NGOs Do More Harm than Good - 12/Jul/2011 21:41 - 4895 days ago
According to GhanaWeb, there were about 320 NGOs operating in Ghana in 1997 - both local and foreign. In 2005 there were perhaps...
The War on Poverty - 29/May/2011 14:00 - 4939 days ago
A poor man and a richer man did fightFor all the golden treasures in the earth.They battled from the moment of their birth,From ...
What a Load of Bankers - 28/May/2011 09:06 - 4940 days ago
“80% of Ghanaians do not have access to financial services,” said the headline in September 2009. Surveys have consistently ...
Week 21 - 25/May/2011 03:39 - 4943 days ago
Tell me, oh wisdom, what is your cureTo this, my conundrum that baits at my brain?That though we are all born with feet on the f...
The Master Race - 19/May/2011 15:19 - 4949 days ago
Jonathan is a typical Philippino - short and with rounded, stocky features, he is polite, softly spoken yet forthright. Jonathan...
How to Piss People Off at Polite Parties - 10/May/2011 09:48 - 4958 days ago
Down in Accra last week, I met up with a number of other volunteers at one of their frequent house parties. It was a polite occa...
Week 18 - 30/Apr/2011 06:45 - 4968 days ago
That moment“it’s” replaced to think “a boy”,Finding fantasies of futures fineLike popping corks of hopes and dreams al...
Doctor Doctor - 19/Apr/2011 13:36 - 4979 days ago
It is VSO policy, I discovered recently, to fly a volunteer home immediately they become pregnant. This has happened to several ...
The Value of a Volunteer - 17/Apr/2011 12:13 - 4981 days ago
Between the ages of 15 and 18, I used to mow the lawn every week during the grass-growing season for Eileen Marjoram, an elderly...
Blowing Hot and Cold - 16/Apr/2011 10:44 - 4982 days ago
The heat has returned with a vengeance. Every day the thermometer is well over 40oC. Its scorching, inescapable and oppressive f...
The Moon God - 12/Apr/2011 15:17 - 4986 days ago
This is a direct quote from Ghana’s best selling Junior High School science text book, Aki-Ola Series Integrated Science by Pe...
The Warmer the Better - 26/Mar/2011 12:05 - 5003 days ago
People who come from temperate countries assume a linear relationship between ambient temperature and enjoyment– cold is bad a...
Culture of Corruption - 23/Mar/2011 12:00 - 5006 days ago
There is a culture of corruption in Ghana. I have heard it said many times but have struggled to understand what this really mea...
Siblings - 21/Mar/2011 11:58 - 5008 days ago
I saw them coming towards me from a long way off. It was 6:30am and I stood with a mug of coffee, dressed in my smart work shirt...
11 Weeks - 13/Mar/2011 19:50 - 5016 days ago
Before your corporal organs form the shellIn which, like an egg, your soul can occupy,Before first breath, first poo, first smil...
Bentley in Bolga - 25/Feb/2011 16:14 - 5032 days ago
I thought I was hallucinating when, turning out of the end of our road, I saw a giant shiny bright white Bentley humming behind ...
There’s Chemistry Between Us - 23/Feb/2011 18:50 - 5034 days ago
The region’s elective chemistry results are embarrassingly low. During the most recent WASSCE examinations in 2009, the equiva...
Jah Rastafari - 19/Feb/2011 16:36 - 5038 days ago
Come to Ghana as a young(ish) white person and it won’t be long, particularly if you are female, before you are approached by ...
A Violent Country - 18/Feb/2011 11:41 - 5039 days ago
What are the stereotypes of Africa? Dangerous? Poor? Violent?Laura dropped her purse outside the front of the house last week. I...
Fraternité, égalité mais rien de Liberté - 13/Feb/2011 13:25 - 5044 days ago
Most guide books to West Africa will state that a visa to enter Burkina Faso is available on the border with Ghana and can be ob...
Blah Blah Blah - 10/Feb/2011 10:13 - 5047 days ago
We could see that the winter was unusually cold as the plane came in to land. The fields and trees of southern England were brus...
What a Chief - 28/Jan/2011 07:49 - 5060 days ago
One of the highlights for many people coming from Britain to Africa in general and Ghana in particular is visiting a real live c...
Witch Symptoms? - 27/Jan/2011 07:48 - 5061 days ago
“Attia is sick. We are on our way to the hospital to see him. Will you come?”Attia is the Afrikids teacher helping TangaCult...
Old Dirty White American Woman - 26/Jan/2011 16:22 - 5062 days ago
Travel south from Bolga on the main Tamale road and you will soon reach the busy and rapidly sprawling town of Wale Wale. Despit...
Petition Demolition - 16/Jan/2011 15:43 - 5072 days ago
Having signed up to be a member of Amnesty International at University, I am still sent e-mails every so often. One such e-mail ...
Apocalypse Now - 29/Nov/2010 11:51 - 5120 days ago
As I rode my motorbike over the brow of the hill, the night landscape before me was a scene from the apocalypse. The earth was a...
Solidarity Forever - 25/Nov/2010 08:57 - 5124 days ago
As a teacher, I have always believed in the public sector. I have worked in three very different schools in my career as a teach...
Snakes and Other Miracles - 24/Nov/2010 06:53 - 5125 days ago
I was sat with a group of science teachers this evening and I described how, on our recent seven hour drive along the horrendous...
Driven up the Wall - 30/Oct/2010 11:57 - 5150 days ago
It was an eventful evening for poor Mr. Thomas, our mild mannered neighbour, and, perhaps more to the point, his mother. He live...
Divide and Rule - 24/Oct/2010 12:28 - 5156 days ago
Adam Smith, the 18th century father of modern economics, used the example of pins to describe the division of labour. If a man n...
Thankyou, whoever you are - 21/Oct/2010 16:31 - 5159 days ago
It all started early in September when Aidan, a VSO volunteer living in Koforidua, a bustling town nestled in the lush green hil...
The Wild North - 21/Oct/2010 16:28 - 5159 days ago
Every culture has legends and mythology, often rooted in historical fact. Part of America’s mythology is the Wild West – a p...
How’s the Weather? - 15/Oct/2010 12:27 - 5165 days ago
Ghanaians must be the only people in the world who enjoy talking about the weather as much as the English. Greeting someone you ...
The Best Teacher in Ghana - 11/Oct/2010 12:25 - 5169 days ago
It is said in Ghana that a teacher’s reward will come in heaven. Certainly, there are few material incentives to work hard wit...
I Was There When... - 28/Sep/2010 10:31 - 5182 days ago
With every successful band, there are always stories of pioneering gigs in rough bars and pubs in dirty areas of town or in mudd...
The Rantings of a Disgruntled Volunteer - 24/Sep/2010 10:54 - 5186 days ago
Please excuse the following rant:It has been just over a year since I arrived in Ghana for the first time and I remember that fi...
Vive La Revolution - 22/Sep/2010 21:39 - 5188 days ago
Happy Birthday to the Upper (East) Region! 2010 is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the‘Upper’ Region. In colonial ti...
X-Rated Childhood - 18/Sep/2010 22:03 - 5192 days ago
Sex with children is a difficult topic to address but, in a typically direct Ghanaian style, the nurse, who had introduced herse...
It’s a Matter of Life and Death - 16/Sep/2010 21:26 - 5194 days ago
We knew that there was a problem as soon as we saw the look in Josephine’s eyes. Despite it being a public holiday (end of Ram...
Parlais vous Anglais? - 10/Sep/2010 16:12 - 5200 days ago
900 years ago, the language of English in its native country of England was a second class language, only spoken by the plebs at...
It’s Perfectly Safe - Unknown - 34 days ago
The next stop on our tour of science resource centres was Bawku. Sue did not come with us - partly because Bawku is still classi...
Are You Managing? - Unknown - 34 days ago
When my friend, Sue, was here last month, she asked a simple question: why is Africa in general, and Ghana in particular, poor? ...
Education, Education, Education... Procrastination - Unknown - 34 days ago
Most teachers will know that education is often used as a political football. Political debates around league tables, failing sc...
Street Children - Unknown - 34 days ago
Kwesi and I met Attia on Thursday evening and rode our motorbikes in convoy to the cluster of bat infested junior high school cl...
Mug Shot - Unknown - 34 days ago
It was market day in Bolga and, as with every market day, the town seems to double in population. The sleepy pace awakens once e...
Lord of the Land - Unknown - 34 days ago
Our landlord is a big man in every sense of the word. Tall, wide and imposing, he struts confidently around with the figure of a...
Your Reward is in Heaven but I’ll See You in Hell - Unknown - 34 days ago
“The rewards for teachers in Ghana,” President Professor Atta Mills said recently, “shall no longer only be in heaven. The...
Every day at KFC - Unknown - 34 days ago
“...and that was Jay-Z’s new song, played for you this evening on Super A1 Radio, 101.1FM. And we are fortunate to have the ...
April Fool - Unknown - 34 days ago
Ghanaians can be so gullible. Today being April Fool’s Day, it gives the opportunity to expose this gullibility to the maximum...
Waking and Dreaming - Unknown - 34 days ago
One of the most precious things about living here is the opportunity to sleep. I virtually never need to set an alarm. I wake up...
Traffic Lights - Unknown - 34 days ago
I was stood with my friend, Donatus, outside his carpentry shop discussing how he could make a weather vane. The day was typical...
Is Bin Laden Really Dead? - Unknown - 34 days ago
A selection of ideas I have heard in Bolgatanga about the killing of Osama Bin Laden:“Bin Laden is not in fact dead. He has po...
Poor Laura - Unknown - 34 days ago
How quickly things can change. Laura was, despite taking a course of antibiotics, still feeling nauseous, vomiting and running d...
Sodom, Gomorra and Tema - Unknown - 34 days ago
While I was down in Accra, I decided to see Attambilla who moved from Bolga to Accra a year ago to find work and to explore new ...
Week 19 - Unknown - 34 days ago
Drift away to another world,Bathe in the feeling you unfurled.Step out of your situation.Be part of the bohemian global nation.S...
Accra Goes Gay - Unknown - 34 days ago
The front page of the Daily Graphic screams...ACCRA GOES GAY!It says much about Ghanaian attitudes to homosexuality that this wa...
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