The Gold Coast
Our work in Ghana is finished, though the projects themselves are just begun.
I think we've made some difference with Aid to Artisans. They now have a very comprehensive analysis of their producers' chain of supply from raw material to end consumer, video documentation of same, a set of recommendations on revamping their website including a redesign, and a roadmap for e-commerce. I'm pleased.
I'm also exhausted, and dirty, and homesick. But there's one last adventure. I'm headed to Kenya tomorrow for a four-day safari on the Masai Mara, edge of the Serengeti. It's a tent trek: no electricity, running water, or (can you believe it?) net access. Leaving all my gadgets in Accra. Offline, gridless, naked.
I have so much more to write about Ghana. Amazing fishing villages, a visit to a voodoo shrine, and playing in a tennis tournament as the only obruni. But it'll all have to wait.
Thanks for reading this past month. Back in the fold after the safari!
(Full photo and video set is here, if you're interested.)
Posted on August 7, 2008 to the category called Africa .
Comments
dude, thanks for the interesting correspondence, you should work for NPR
Posted by: grondo at August 8, 2008 9:54 AM
