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Africa

  • Africa, Travel Stories

    The sacrifice of anonymity

    I’m sitting at an outdoor cafe in Marrakech watching the traffic whiz noisily by and wishing I were anywhere else. I’m the only woman sitting here, surrounded by old men drinking their…

  • Africa, Travel Stories

    A day in the life: Ghana

    I’ve been traveling now for seven months, criss-crossing the globe and searching for answers to questions I haven’t quite been able to articulate. For now my journey has brought me back to…

  • Africa, Travel Stories

    Ghana, at last

    Tomorrow I will have been in Ghana for a week. I’m staying in a small village close to Accra called Teiman where I’m teaching English and computer classes at the local school.…

  • Africa, Travel Stories

    Finding The One

    I’m sitting at the Lisbon airport, not even half way through my 22 hour layover before I board the plane for Ghana. My computer screen says it’s 12:34 a.m, my phone says…