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COUNTRIES THAT CAN STILL BE TRAVELLED ON THE CHEAP
Just got the above titled article from Lonely Planet. The only country on the African continent cited was Sudan! Can ya believe it? Anyways, you can read the entry on Sudan below….but before that consider GHANA! MADINGHANA just has one good piece of advice if you want to do Ghana “on the cheap”…get out of […]
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN ROADS-KUMASI
March 30, 2010
So, I have a Face Book “friend”-he’s not a friend. Years ago I knew him in his official capacity as a senior official in the Kumasi Department of Urban Roads. Now, according to his facebook profile, I believe he is an even more senior official in Urban Roads in Accra. Anyways, back in 2005, after […]
CANADA @ FRANCOPHONE FUN/FOOD FAIR
March 28, 2010
What a great day at the Francophone Fun/Food Fair organized by the Kumasi Alliance Francaise. Hats off to Julien dal Bosco the hardworking director of the Alliance here in Kumasi. So our Canada Table generated a lot of interest. There wasn’t any tourism promotional material like Burkina Faso That would have been insensitive…it is sooooooooooo […]
READING BUDDIES AT FOUR VILLAGES INN
March 27, 2010
Dola, the tour guide from the States celebrated in the post entitled “Akwasidae in Kumasi” of 2010-03-25 brought GAME CHANGE a fascinating analysis of the US presidential nomination and campaign battles in 2007-2008 which she promptly lent me at the beginning of her four night stay saying “I know you’ll enjoy this.” And then Debbie […]
SUNDAY MORNING TIMBER LORRY
March 26, 2010
And on the way back from the S.T.C. bus station on the Sunday morning after dropping Debbie and Maureen, I took a picture of this stalled timber lorry transporting four giant logs. to the new modern wood village near Sokoban. To Debbie and Maureen, MadinGhana commented: “Since the traditional location at Anloga on the Accra […]
INSTANT FUFU MIX IN THE HEART OF ASHANTI
March 26, 2010
As I drove Debbie and Maureen to catch the S.T.C. bus to Accra on a Sunday morning, Maureen asked me to stop so she could take a picture of a billboard that intrigued her. Never for a lack of words, Madinghana commented: “Gee, I’ve passed this billboard a thousand times or more. It takes fresh […]
200th Post! ANOTHER HAPPY DAY AT FOUR VILLAGES INN
March 26, 2010
Pictured here are Maureen (left) and mum Deborah Farris from Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. just before heading off in the Four Villages Inn van to the STC bus station after a two night stay at Four Villages Inn. Here’s what they wrote in our Four Villages Inn guest book: “We love 4 Villages! The accommodations very […]
AKWASIDAE IN KUMASI
March 25, 2010
LAST SUNDAY, MARCH 21 WAS AKWASIDAE. It’s a wonderful time to be in Kumasi. FOUR VILLAGES INN was full of course-two rooms booked by a large tour company and two rooms by a small one woman show called CGC (Connecting God’s Children) Cultural and Historical Tours run by Dola Young, Founder and C.E.O. Guess which […]
AUSTRALIANS NOT AT THE INN
March 25, 2010
(start at the Power of One in Development posted earlier today) Back at the inn after the Ashan visit with the Kumasi East Rotary club, the phone rang. It was His Excellency Billy Williams, Australian High Commissioner to Ghana. He told me he was back at his hotel and had had a wonderful shower. I […]
THE POWER OF ONE IN DEVELOPMENT!
March 25, 2010
Apologies, Madinghana -sidelined by an erratic internet server… Recently, our Kumasi East Rotary Club went to a joyful occasion. A new baby ward was commissioned by the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E. Mr Billy Williams. He and his wife were representing the Carter family. Aimee Carter came to Ghana as a volunteer and was […]
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