Stories about Ghana from December, 2006
Africa/India: overcoming differences
Inktus, a Ugandan blogger in New Delhi, India, writes about “overcoming differences and behaving as global citizens of one world.”
The Shadowy World of 419, Posing With a Crocodile And Santa Claus in Ouagadougou
What happens when scammers go digital? The result is the shadowy world of 419. Scribbles from the Den, a Cameroonian blog, has a post about these scammers “I Go Chop Your Dollar”: 20/20 Goes into the Shadowy World of Nigerian Internet Scammers: The email usually pops unannounced in your mailbox...
Ghana: blogging from Ghana
An American in Africa puts her blog and life in Ghana into perspective, “I can't fix Africa's problems. I can't fix Ghana's problems. I can help my little corner of the world and my Ghanaian friends, but that is between them and me.”
Voices from Ghana
This week’s voices from Ghana remind us that Obruni (white or foreigner) bloggers in Ghana are well and truly getting used to the country for its problem. No country is without its particular problems, but for these bloggers, some are more acute and note-worthy than others. The first complaint lodged...
Bloggers in West Africa, harsh migration, low bandwidth and Who Killed Deyda?
We get to know more about two bloggers in West Africa this week. Keith Smith in Burkina Faso shares his photos, and George Ngwane in Cameroon re-publishes an interview with a local newsmagazine. Blogger, Keith Smith, has been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 1989 and has been blogging at...
Ghana: bead-making
An American in Africa writes about bead-making in Ghana, “Ghanaian beads are so cool. They use old glass to make them, and they come in every color, shape and size you can imagine. There are antique beads that are beyond our budget (and probably beyond Ghana's “Export of Antiquities” laws!),...
