Africa Travel Guide: West Africa

Looking For Water

By Colyn Alcock When the rainy season kicks off in Ghana, a strange metamorphosis overcomes the locals. Down Cantonments Road, the usual jovial swagger is lost under the graying skies and replaced by a sullen, cagey attitude, even bad temper....

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A Trip to the "Shopping Mall"

By Colyn Alcock The old song goes, "if you go down to the woods today, you better go in disguise." Nobody mentioned the exhausting experience of shopping in Accra. Take one oversized, humungous life-sized blender, tens of thousands of argumentative...

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Accra for beginners

By Colyn Alcock Ghana welcomed me with an impressive monster of an electrical storm at 35,000 feet, out of the plane window it looked like God was taking photographs of his little piece of heaven that fell to earth. The...

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Ghana - Fattening the Soul

By Colyn Alcock Allow me to pose a question for you to ponder. When was the last time that you took a major life decision that wasn’t based on a need to further your career, improve your lifestyle, develop or...

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La République du Bénin

People and languages There are over 50 distinct groups of peoples in Benin, and each speaks a different language or dialect. The most widely spoken language is Fon, which originates in Abomey, the old capitol of the Kingdom of Dahomey....

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A Trek in Dogon Country

Nicky McLean treks through the Dogon Country in Mali, West Africa, famous for being a culture that still ives in cliff-side villages and has managed to keep its old way of life. Dogon country is prime attraction to travelers, not...

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Character Building in Ghana

This job, you just never know... six months ago I wasn't contemplating even coming to Ghana and now here I am hanging out with Rita Marley, wife of the late Bob Marley, contemplating horticultural potential and sussing out how we...

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