Soccer practice in Accra. This is a typical "football" field.
Typical weekday traffic in Accra. In the foreground is another of the ever present tro-tros. As you can see, they are sometimes loaded with more than people.
The Ghanaian national dish, fufu. It is a dough made out of cassava, served uncooked in a soup - spicy fish in this case, and eaten with the fingers, though the soup may be eaten with a spoon.
An old bald guy eating it the proper way. Notice the bowl of water just peeking into the picture on the left hand side. That is for cleaning yourself up after eating.
Now, this is out of order, but this is Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. On our way to Africa we saw the human clock shown here. Someone is employed to sit in the clock and paint the hand on throughout the day. He erases the old hand when it is time, and then draws on the new one, only to pause a moment and then start the whole process over again but a minute later on the clock!
This appears to be both a salon and a home - a home business. Such an arrangement is common in Ghana.
We don't see much wildlife in the city but there are lots of fascinating birds. This one flew right up to our window and I have therefore labeled him a "fowl visitor." LOL
These white birds, whatever they are, are fairly common.
These buzzards, or vultures - I am not sure which - are rare but show up sometimes and are very interesting looking. Probably less so if they were circling above me in the bush.
Insectoid wildlife is also quite common in the city as well as elsewhere.
Street hawkers as they are called peddle their goods between vehicles when the traffic stops at red lights. This frame is taken from a video.
Here the hawkers are working in what is reasonably light traffic for Accra.
This add for a public toilet and shower we found interesting. To be used at the same time? We didn't stop to ask.
Ghana is a major cocoa producer and this is a pod which has been broken open. The cocoa beans are found within the white substance.
This is a craft market in Accra. They sell everything from traditional African masks, to fabric, to food. Many things are obtained much cheaper here than in regular stores.
This is the Accra Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is used for more hold ceremonies such as marriages, rather than weekly worship services which are held at local meetinghouses throughout the city. There is only one temple here. But the meetinghouses are common, and in fact due to Church growth in this area many wards (congregations) meet in rented halls. We were told that that is because they cannot build the buildings fast enough. A new congregation (ward, branch, or group) is organized in West Africa every other day. At this point the Church only builds stake centers (if you are unfamiliar with the terminology, that is basically the main meetinghouse, or sort of headquarters chapel, for what is a rough equivalent of a diocese consisting of anywhere from 8 to 14 congregations) and most congregations rent places to meet until such time as a building can be built. Some of these wards/branches may be waiting a long time because the Church has to catch up on the stake centers before it can get to meetinghouses for the other congregations and it doesn't look like that is going to happen any time soon. Today a recent convert whose baptism we had attended previously was confirmed in the Sacrament Meeting (worship service) we attended. After the regular meetings were over, there was a convert baptismal service which we attended, and the young missionaries involved told us they have more baptisms to perform this month. It is an exciting time to be here!
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