Goodbye 2009...and thank you

With the sun-setting on 2009, I couldn’t help but post this stunning photograph taken by a friend, Tina on the beach in front of Oasis Beach Resort in Cape Coast.

Thank you once again to everyone for reading, contributing and staying in touch.

Stay safe tonight wherever you may be. And “Afehyia pa”: May a Good Year Come to Meet Us.

And join us at our new blog G-lish.org.

Christmas in Bolgatanga, Ghana

I did a guest post over at Ever The Nomad about Christmas here, in Bolgatanga. And we just posted it to our new blog site G-lish.org here: Christmas in Ghana.

You can read the whole post at Ever the Nomad by clicking on this link Guest Post Ghana.

Here is a short excerpt:

There are no gifts. There is no roast turkey or goose. There are no chocolates or puddings or trees or tinsel. The aroma of mulled wine floating from the stove top is absent too. It seems like any other day.

I only notice that something is different when I cross the fallow maize fields to the highway to buy some eggs.

The sun is already high in the sky. I look along the highway. A faint haze blurs the baobabs in the distance. This is the Harmattan season, a two-month period during which dust from the Sahara Desert settles across West Africa producing foggy scenes and intense lava-red sunrises and sunsets.

Insider's Guide to Volunteering

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read every article from This is Ghana--in a much more organised fashion--and download the free Insider's Guide to Volunteering.

We have posted the Insider’s Guide to Volunteering at our new site: G-lish Please visit the "Volunteering Guide" page/tab to click and quickly download a copy of the guide. No sign up or anything necessary. If you do like what you see, then you’re welcome to sign up on the right-hand side of the page to receive our posts in your inbox in future.

Also, you can read our first new post at the site: Welcome to G-lish.

Please feel free to email the volunteer guide to friends, colleagues, associates and anyone you think might be interested. It’s free. No strings. No sign-ups, unless you want to. We’d love feedback, though. So, if you want to comment please go to G-lish and click on the Volunteering Guide page tab. There is plenty of space for comments. We’re also on twitter at @glishnews.

Finally, a happy and safe Christmas to everyone! Be careful. Stay safe. No drinking Akpetushie and driving, OK! But do eat fufu. Life is good with fufu.