Nå har vi vært i vår nye hjemby i noen uker, og fått muligheten til å både se oss rundt og få et lite inntrykk av byen. Allerede bare her er det nokså ulikt hovedstaden Accra, og helt annerledes enn våre egne hjemland i Skandinavia. Her er det som forventet langt enklere kår enn hva
Da har vi ankommet Afrika, nærmere bestemt Ghana, hvor vi skal bo de neste månedene. Det har nå gått et døgn siden vi landet her nede og jeg sitter i skrivende stund på en buss ned til byen der vi skal gå på skolen. Det er hektisk, det er varmt, det er klamt, og det
In Ghana food is an important part of the culture, and definitely something worth exploring when living and studying in Ghana. Everywhere you travel huge commercial sign is put along the road. Showing happy people eating home cooked Ghanaian food, and I’m pretty sure 90% of the sign is about tomato paste. Yes, you read
The runner up to our long weekend we got a heads up to go to Accra. Because during this week there is an international break around the world, which means that the national teams are playing qualifying matches to the Africa Cup of Nations against Kenya. Ghana’s national team or as they are famously known
If you ever decide to rent a car and drive, following the coast line of Ghana you will notice something standing out from the ordinary. A series of enormous white castles spread out along the coast. Many of these are Ghana’s most popular tourist attraction, heck just in Elmina and Cape Coast alone you have
I love the first two weeks in a new country. The new impressions, the new smells, the scenery, the noises and how it all connects into a picture of what to expect the coming semester in Cape Coast, Ghana. Everywhere in town there are speakers that thump the latest from Ghana’s top charts. Children as
For 3 months my life has been in Ghana, but now I am back home in Denmark. On my journey back, I had a layover in a European airport, which was the first time in a long while that I felt anonymous and able to blend in the crowd of travellers. In this last blogpost
Greetings from Ghana! Here it’s still hot and sunny most days even though we are approaching the rainy season (which is from May-July). Last weekend we were so lucky to be invited to a real Ghanaian wedding! It was the marriage of our field manager Orlando and his beautiful Alice. The wedding took place
Last week we finished our classes. After the field work, we spent 2 weeks with lectures at campus. In the third week we prepared and presented our formal presentations of our research. This included explaining methodology, challenges, results, theoretical perspectives and how we applied these. It was really interesting for me to hear about the
This blogpost is going to be about all the good spots in Cape Coast which is where we are living when studying with Kulturstudier. Now I have been around Ghana for a while and I have seen different cities, towns and villages and I still think that Cape Coast is my favorite place. One of
