mama africa

as i told you in the last post also my mum visited me!

it has been a pleasure dear mother to have you here! thanks for the visit!

now i also had the chance to see some other parts of ghana again - and to see some of the top sightseeing places in ghana (cape coast castle, kakum natoionl part mit canopy walk). its really a nice country - see some pictures... and come to visit, the people could need some money from tourists ;)

mosque in wulugu

my mother in ghana!!

 we went to see the slave camp in paga. at this place black slave traders were trading black slaves. this camp is located close to the border to burkina faso. the slaves still had a long walk ahead of them to reach the coast (elmina, cape coast castle,...there were plenty places where slaves were collected and put onto ships). the white slave traders were at the coast and bought the slaves there. they feared too much to come so far inland.

the slaves ate out of these bowls

family

still at the slave camp

baobab tree - a typical african tree

church in navrongo

my mother at the bolgatanga market

a broom as a souvenir

 from bolgatanga my mother and i went to kumasi - with one of the biggest makets in west africa

streets in kumasi

at the market

without words!!!

 we went down south to elmina, where we stayed. elmina was one of the castles from where some of .the slaves were traded

Elmina Castle

Bats inside the castle

Elmina Town

at the castle

...with mum

can you imagine, it was raining!!

From Elmina we went to one of the places which are always mentionned in guide books - and i never found time to go there. kakum national part with the canopy walk. you walk up in the trees in up to 40 metres over the ground!

huge trees

it was a good experience!

cape coast castle is probably the biggest tourist attraction on the coast line. it was a place where slaves were gathered before they came on thet ships and went to europe or the americas. about 20 million slaves have been traded over the years - only from ghanas coast line. the castle looks very nice, but the history as a shame. see some pictures

house built out of an old ship

we continued to...

...the beach

kwame nkrumah was ghanas first president. after some years he was overthrown, and at this time also his statue got damaged. today he is highly respected, he has his own mausoleum very central in accra, in ghanas capital.

kwame nkrumah

the mausoleum

with COHF project manager

COHF is the NGO which is shooting the documentary. the film team went without me to ouagadougu last week, but could not shoot the final interview. the team will go again soon...and hopefully finish the whole documentary - finally!

at the botanical garden accra - these were the only sign boards

thorns on the bark of a tree

the sign board of the botanical garden in the same quality as the garden itself!!

bye bye dear mother

chief

at a funeral in nalerigu

talking drums - people "speak" like this, others understand the message

a different type of drum

praising the ancestors

a prayer for late chief masu

big spider in our kitchen

big and hairy!

braveaurora social workers plus project manager at the "kids meeting"

after the meeting we went to clean up parts of the community

plenty pictures - hope it was not too plenty! i am in tamale right now, and the internet is incredibly fast - almost as fast as at home in austria! i am not at all used to internet like this anymore, but its nice!

since bob marley died today (11/05) 32 years ago, so today the whole of ghana celebrates "bob marley day"!

i hope you are all doing well and wish all of you a happy bob marley day!!

bye, sevi

it has been a long time...

...thats what the people in ghana always say if you havent met them in some time. and thats also the case here...sorry, i was not all that good in posting in the past 2 months ;)

im fine, but there was a lot going on, so i did not find time wo write - and also the internet is really bad in my village these days. uploading a pic can take up to 1 hour...and then you are likely to fail in the end again! so its not what i prefer to do as you can imagine.

anyway, i want to show you some pics!

first of all my old friend BAEEO visited me! he was the first visitor - followed by my mother, who visited me in april! pics of her visit you will see in the nex post (haha, hopefully sooner than in 2 months!).

hope some people will follow to visit me here!

its really nice in ghana...see for yourself!

the fishing village of miamia

nice, clean ocean

baeeo...

stones...

...and more stones!

breaksfast - you are invited!

waste in the ocean is used by shells

fishermen leave at night for work

rubber trees

view from the fort in axim

at that fort

...the view into a differrent direction

a alter kicker der ernst...!

ankobra beach

almost too nice - kitschig!

long, empty beaches in ghana

fishermen

beach and roots (rock, reggae)

cancer

a shell

the red house was ours

when i asked the conductor about the destination in the end he said the bus was going only to accra...hmmm...!

chief and myself talking to the school kids about protecting the environment of our community

not to miss in the north: corcodiles

mr. b. has been a pleasure to have you as a guest in this beautiful country!!

...not only beautiful country! life is beautiful!!

seeds...

...again!

termites

i recieved manner schnitten - look at the mistake they made. it was packeged like this (which i have never seen - but have taken plenty manner before!!!)

volunteer mirijam is a serious card player!

 on the second day of my mums visit somebody (not myself!) had a car accident with the car of the NGO i am working for. it was sumersulting, and people were so lucky. most of the times we used to transport people on the back of the car - on that very day the back was empty! god is great, all passengers left the car without any injury. since then we thank god for that... see yourself.
if i see cars like this standing on the roadside, i always assume that somebody has died. here everbody was fine!