Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Ye Behyia (We Shall Meet)...Some travels and last days at BTLA

How we do. 
Not quite the stairway to heaven but something about those white habits...

In Sunyani with Sr. Marie (left) and Sr. Pauline
Morning assembly donned in 'dove eggs'



Aduwa

Rodin's statue manifest

Love is an understatement.

Madame Grace

Dufie does Jesus

School

Feet of the future

Abrafi

Abdulai hates snack break. :) 
Little monkeys. Denice and Jeffrey
Prince is charming.


L to R: Jeffrey, Keneth, Denice and Paa Kwesi. BS3 boys.
Thompson and chicken.

Foufou-pounding postulants. 

Akokoamong roots.

Not as smile-provoking. Laissez-faire capitalism leaves far too many children behind. On the day when receiving an education is more lucrative for the family than child labor on a global scale, I'll concur that slavery is over. And it is hardly an 'African thing'. 

In Nkoranza

In the village adjacent to the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary

Monkey hike.


Look at that face.

Opposable thumbs and banana propensities... is evolution really still debatable? 


Petroglyphs at the Kristo Boase (Christ in the rock) Monastery in Techiman.


Mused by rocks and monks.

Brother Anthony expounds on the uses of the moringa plant. The monastery sustains itself and its monks through their moringa, cashew, mango, and star fruit products among other things. 

Cape Coast castle. The walls can't talk but the air still carries years of unimaginable suffering. One of the largest ports of the slave trade. 

From the governor's room. He saw the ocean while thousands of Africans spent months in darkness, excrement and tears underneath his floorboards only to be transported in comparable conditions to further hell. The governor's view remains the same. 
Elmina Castle. Same story, less than a twenty minute drive down the coast. Originally built by the Portuguese and later seized by the Dutch. The means and the end saw little change.

On Tuesdays, the fish around Elmina swim freely as this is the day for fishermen to rest and pray.


University of Cape Coast 

Statue at UCC.



Colleague and traveling companion Seth Osei. I'll miss this one.

I saw red.

Got fish?

The door's open for you Kwame.
The biggest impetus for me to get out of bed in the morning while in Ghana. My boy. 




Until next time. 




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