http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/ Venturing to Ghana and beyond... Copyright 2008 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:53:13 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The first rule of blogs is keep it fresh, which I haven't done for a year. But people are still visiting this blog, so thought I'd update it with a link to my story on Ghana's Fridaywear, which aired on... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2006/08/fridaywear.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2006/08/fridaywear.php Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:53:13 +0000 Working on the post-production elements of my reporting from Ghana has been one huge, never-ending learning curve. With tons of mini-dv tapes and no production equipment of my own, I've had to rely on friends and colleagues to help me... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/06/west_africa_upd.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/06/west_africa_upd.php Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:56:36 +0000 After an action-packed final week in Ghana, I sadly left my new friends and the fascinating country, and made the 20-hour trip home. Well, not quite home. I'm back in Washington, DC for a couple weeks to finish up my... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/back_in_the_goo.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/back_in_the_goo.php Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:57:03 +0000 It had been a whirlwind week with lots of filming and running around, but all was going well, more or less. And then one day I was boiling hot and just couldn't cool off. I looked around my taxi at... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/mia.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/mia.php Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:35:07 +0000 As some may remember, on the plane to Accra last month, I happened to sit next to Ishmael, a young man who hailed from Buduburam. The first time I went to Buduburam, I asked Alice Abraham, the director of the... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/ishmael.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/ishmael.php Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:50:45 +0000 My taxi crawled through the afternoon traffic, windows rolled down all the way, the black and gray clouds of exhaust streaming in. I was hot and sweaty and dying for some sort of very cold refreshment. We were almost home.... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/san_francsico_i.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/san_francsico_i.php Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:25:33 +0000 Some have predicted that as poor countries develop, they will leapfrog over several stages in the technological revolution. And so it is happening here in Ghana. Cell phones are everywhere and being used in numbers that 'land-line' phones never were.... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/flashing_the_gh.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/flashing_the_gh.php Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:16:43 +0000 No, it's not like a bikini wax... and it's nothing like a Brazilian wax. Dutch wax is the expensive version of colorful African cloth. If you've been in West Africa, you know "wax" fabric well. It's in every market and... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/dutch_wax.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/04/dutch_wax.php Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:08:21 +0000 Nearly anywhere you go in Ghana, you can find someone selling water in small clear plastic bags, called "sachets". The plastic bags are presumably cheaper to produce than bottles, and maybe easier to transport in bulk, and they retail at... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/sachets.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/sachets.php Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:12:30 +0000 I've had a lifelong love affair with snacks. Snacking to me is as vital as breathing oxygen. As my sister and brothers will attest, I panic if I sense there are no snacks within a ten-minute radius of wherever I... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/snacks.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/snacks.php Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:47:58 +0000 A seemingly ominous phrase that visitors to Africa soon discover is benign is "the dead man's market." These are the markets selling cast-off clothing from North America and Europe, and they blanket the African continent. It's often startling to be... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/the_dead_mans_m.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/the_dead_mans_m.php Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:51:48 +0000 The text message beeped onto my cell phone last night: "Beach tomorrow. Meet at Vasili's Cafe 9am." And so with that high-tech missive from the Canadians, I found myself spending Easter Sunday in expatriate comfort at White Sands Beach, an... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/bicultural_flip.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/bicultural_flip.php Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:35:09 +0000 Iso Paelay is the thirtysomething host of a popular music entertainment show Thursday nights on Ghana's TV3. Stage-named "Ice Baby" or "Ice Man", Iso interviews local personalities, spins records and generally holds forth with great energy and charisma. But it's... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/the_ice_man.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/the_ice_man.php Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:38:00 +0000 It is believed that Christianity arrived on the Gold Coast (present day Ghana) with the first Portuguese settlers in the sixteenth century. Christian missionaries began streaming in during colonial times and the flood continues today. The majority of Ghanaians have... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/got_religion.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/got_religion.php Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:26:51 +0000 It figures. The day I finally have an air-conditioned ride out to Buduburam, the refugee settlement, is the day the cool weather arrives. "Cool" is a relative concept, of course. Yesterday morning dawned gray and menacing. A huge thunderstorm hit... http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/heat_relief.php http://www.reportersabroad.org/ghana/archives/2005/03/heat_relief.php Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:59:54 +0000