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Got back uneventfully from Bobbo’s house yesterday night. I had originally planned to leave for Medassi early this morning, but Steve, a fellow-traveler who collects kente, had planned to go visit a kente dealer today, and since this [...]
Sorry for the radio silence the last few days, but I’ve been obsessively weaving (and only Mike knows just how obsessive that can be ). And making rapid progress. While my stripes are still wobbly and my edges far from neat, I’ve successfully woven several yards of kente. Today Kwame helped me weave a [...]
It’s amazing how fast one adapts to one’s surroundings. For example, I can now ride in the front seat of a rickety old car, with no seat belt, as the driver careens wildly from one side of the road to another at 40 mph to avoid potholes, pedestrians, and the occasional cow, and pulls out [...]
I am surrounded by kente.
I woke up this morning, peeked out my door, and kente! Kente everywhere. The walls were covered with them. Some are simple checkered patterns, some are complex diamonds with figures of animals inside, some have stripes and plaids and woven-in symbols which I believe have meanings to the Ewe. I’ll have [...]
This Internet cafe is having sporadic problems with their satellite connection, so I’m going to make this relatively quick.
Made it to the Volta Region with Bobo last night, and suffered through another suffocating night with no fan. Apparently the every-five-day rolling blackouts are country-wide; most power is hydroelectric, generated by the dam in the Volta [...]
I spent three hours today trying to get these blog entries posted, with sporadic interruptions for power outages and sundry disasters. I did make it to the goldsmith, who is making me a pair of silver spindles - one with adinkra designs in gold on the top of the whorl, and one with silver filigree [...]
Finally got to sit down at an internet cafe, and while they don’t have new enough computers to take a thumb drive, and can’t set me up with an Ethernet connection, there’s nothing to stop me from reading the laptop screen and retyping my blog entries into their computers. So that’s exactly what I’m doing. [...]
Last night probably qualifies as one of the worst nights I’ve spent. When backpacking, especially in poor countries, one has to accept that once in awhile, you’re going to be stuck in a rathole. It happened to me in Vietnam, when I spent an evening in a windowless concrete cubicle where it must [...]
Well-known fact: roosters crow at dawn.
Slightly less well-known fact: roosters also crow at 1am, 2am, 3am, and whenever they feel like it.
Well, I did get some sleep.
I suppose I should confess at this point that Our Intrepid Heroine usually spends the first day in a foreign country holed up in the hotel like a scared [...]
I arrived here a few hours ago, on British Airways Flight 81, after an uneventful 22-hour trip. At the airport, I was met by a slender young man named Eddie, who bargained with the taxi driver who had instantly attached himself to me and got me from the airport for a mere $10. (Normally it [...]