EDMONTON
It’s time for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, which governs the country’s three northern territories and its aboriginal…
LONDON, England
The day I drove out of Kumasi for the last time a friend asked what adjective I would apply to Africa after living there for eight…
LOME, Togo
First the voodoo priest wanted to know our names.
Seated inside a darkened shack at the edge of La Marche des Fetishes, Ganyehessou…
I wonder if they’ll ever get this rig moving.
I’ve been sitting in this butt-numbing position — doubled-over, knees…
KUMASI, Ghana
Kumasi is Ghana’s second-largest city and the country’s inland hub; all major roads leading north towards the Sahara…
KUMASI, Ghana
Inside the inner courtyard at Manhyia Palace, heart of the Ashanti Kingdom, a westerner would need an anthropologist’s knowledge…
KUMASI, Ghana
There are four types of oburonis, or foreigners, to be found in West Africa.
The most established are the expatriates, folks from…
It’s hard to write about a thing when you know next to nothing about it.
Consider life in a refugee camp.
TAMALE, Northern Ghana
It was well past dark when I switched tro-tros in Tamale, pressing south through the African night.
KUMASI, Ghana
I met Larry several months ago on the bus to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.
KUMASI, Ghana
Walking down to the guesthouse at the end of the day the aroma of roasting meat wafted into my nostrils.
HOHOE, Ghana
Florence Yaarda looked confused as I paid for the night’s lodging.
The proprietor of the Taste Lodge in eastern Ghana wrinkled…
The soldier glared at me disapprovingly.
“I have been told to detain you,” he said, explaining that my suspicious behaviour had been…
eople in Ghana don’t really know what to expect from oil companies that are jockeying for position on the West African nation’s Atlantic…
KUMASI, Ghana
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie used to wonder why Whitehorse journalists didn’t do more to “promote the territory.
MOUNT CAMEROON, Cameroon
The relentless gain in altitude brought respite from the equatorial heat as we trudged upwards through the rainforest of…
ACCRA, Ghana
The afternoon was hot and I wanted ice cream.
They sell it at Frankie’s, a popular joint in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, where…
DOUALA, Cameroon
The man who called himself Nkankam was drinking beer outside a bakery in Douala on a Sunday morning.
NKAWKAW, Ghana
Carlos Ampeh couldn’t afford to jump off a cliff, but he wasn’t about to let white folks and rich Ghanaians be the only…
You could hardly blame Christopher Ani for not voting in Nigeria’s April elections.
A native Nigerian from the southeastern Enugu state, Ani,…
