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The long trotro ride from Accra Mall to the middle of nowhere. The long wait under an awning while a second trotro very slowly filled. The long trotro ride to a small town with a ...read more
Looping conversation with a lady sitting on a park bench. She had met her husband at the age of sixteen when she stuck her hand up through the sand of some faraway place and took ...read more
It's nine years this July since I came to Berlin for a week and after 10 months away in Ghana it feels so very strange. This morning I got lectured for five minutes by a ...read more
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I came to visit a Ghanaian friend who runs a very tiny, very humble business. When he had no customers he came and sat down. He saw tears in my eyes and leaned forward to ...read more
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I walked past a group of boys and one of them said, opportunistically but with a sweet formality, ‘I would like to marry you.’ ‘Really?’ I stopped. I put my hands on my hips. ‘But ...read more
In Accra I have four or five street friendships with little doggoes and pussycats who live around the way. Tonight I was walking home late past a famous club when three bouncers slumped over their ...read more
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My date took me to the poolside with his mother. This was an accident. I had already set out from my house and he wrote saying, umm actually, Mum’s coming too. He took us to ...read more
I am in Africa. I walked home the long way late and carrying a huge bracket of flowering branches, which I plan to set in water til they root and then plant them out to ...read more
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Have you noticed how racists feel the description of their racism is worse than the actual offence? Someone will say something that's steeped in hatred and if we say, that's racist, they bridle. "Are you ...read more