27 August 2010
This is Aelaf Dafla, acting head of computer science. He is an
Eritrean who grew up in neighboring Ethiopia. I don't know what
brought him to Ghana.
27 August 2010
This picture is for the benefit of my daughter Gwen, an historian
of medicine who is interested in folk remedies of all sorts. I
remind her that on a bush taxi ride in Cameroon, a hawker boarded
the bus to pitch an elixir with similar benefits.
27 August 2010
Another picture of our house, along with one of the cane chairs we
bought and evidence that our tandem made the flight fairly intact.
27 August 2010
A view of the typical houses in our neighborhood.
27 August 2010
An example of the concrete version of "post and beam" construction
used in Ghana.
27 August 2010
One of the few "skyscrapers" we have seen in Accra. It is nine or 10 stories.
Just this morning we did see a high-rise apartment building in process of
being built. It will be nine stories and is being built with the concrete
"post and beam" method.
27 August 2010
Ashesi's computer lab, with my students hard at work. The faces of the
students in the other half of the room were blocked by the monitors, so
I did not take their picture. It turns out that the seven women (out of
29 students) are all clusterd on that side of the room.