We - myself Gilbert Nii-Okai , my wife Gillian and our two boys, Nii-Tettey Antiaye and Amar Nii-Tetteh have now been in Ghana for two whole and hectic weeks and we've all been thoroughly enjoying it. it certainly feels great for me to be back in the land of my birth again. My last visit was back in 1998 - seven years ago - and there have been quite a lot of changes since then. More on this later.
I had planned to start my blogging adventure immediately on arrival BUT , as the old cliche neatly puts it "life is what happens while one is making plans ". Things have been far too exciting and hectic and I haven't had so much time away from computers in quite a long time and that has been quite refreshing I must concede.
The boys are on their very first visit to Ghana and Africa think it it is the most exciting and interesting place they have visited. Even their mother, who comes from the Caribbean island of St Lucia, somewhat grudgingly, agrees.
In the last few years they have been to Barbados, Trinidad, St Lucia, Syria, Lebanon, France, the Netherlands etc and so they should know and that means there must be something genuinely exciting about Ghana. I may be somewhat biased , as a native but if they say it is the best country they have visited , it is certainly their independent and objective opinion.
We are going to spend the entire sdummer school vacation here and so we'll hopefully have a bit more time from now on to do some regular blogging with thoughts, sights and sounds from Accra and the rest of Ghana.
so far we have travelled through the Western and Central Regions of Ghana. We spent three days at Busua in the Western Region and three days at Elmina , near Cape Coast. We are now back in Accra where I was born, where both my parents were born, where both sets of my grandparents were born, and all my great-grandparents were born etc etc etc.etc
Yes, my links - genetic, ethnic, linguistic, cultural , you name it - with the city of Accra goes back several countless generations to the very first Ga settlers. As such , though I have been a globetrotter for most of my adult life, I have an multidimensional umbilical cord to this city and its people. No other place on this planet comes anywhere near Accra in my affections and being here again after such a long period away certainly makes me appreciate the old adage " there is no place like home".
There is truly, no place like home !
