Posts from when Harriet and Nathan spent six months in Ghana in 2011 working on separate development projects in the Ashanti region.
This is a borehole repair at Bosomkyekye, a reasonable size village outside Mampong. A borehole is not an insult. It’s a deep hole drilled in the ground that water comes out of through a pump. Sometimes it’s 120-odd feet deep. That’s not 120 odd feet. They’re quite normal feet. It means approximate, silly. A borehole …
Pepper drying in the sun, taken today.
Alien / Predator things – check
Terminator – check
Stunts – check
Gore – check
Explosions – check
Expressions of puzzlement – check
SHOUTING – CHECK
via @io9
George Ayittey is a Ghanaian economist and author, and he has a problem with African autocrats above all other things, even oppression and mismanagement by colonial powers. He appears on Twitter every so often, and when he does he usually lets rip with a volley of tweets. He doesn’t pull his punches. When Muammar Gaddafi …
You see a lot of things in the developing world that you’d rather not see, you’d rather didn’t happen, or you’d do something about if you had the slightest idea what you could do. You’re approached for money by people with blindness or deformities. You see violence towards people and animals. You see the conditions …
This handsome devil, an agama, is always at our gate. Kofi, Philip and Richard do a great job of looking after the house but it’s just possible that this guy’s in charge.
© Nathan Nelson 2026
