Obroni Observations

• Vodafone Ghana: Power to Who? 4 months ago One of the hardest things about living as an expat and especially as an expat in Ghana is that I miss my family and hearing about the things that may be trivial to some but which are vitally important to me… how my elderly mother is feeling and faring, how my niece’s new job is going,...
• So Who's Complaining? 1 year ago I know this will come as a shock but in the worst way ever I want to complain. But I made a promise to my husband that I would not say anything bad about things here in you-know-where because this is an election year and goodness knows anything can happen. Wouldn’t want to be deported back...
• Excursion: Keta Revisited 1 year ago It’s been a long time since we’ve been anywhere outside of Tema. For one thing we are always busy busy busy. For another we have three kids who always seem to have something needing to be done over the weekend. And for another, we have a car that, that… well, let’s just say...
• ECG, VRA, Gridco, God? Who's to blame for these power outages? 1 year ago As I began this blog post, I slotted my pen drive into the USB port. That’s because I hate to lose this blog to the black hole of the blogosphere if, scratch that, when the power goes off. Again. At least I’ll only lose a minute’s worth of work since I set the autosave up for...
• And he's outta there! 2 years ago I know I had misgivings about our oldest son Sean heading off to boarding school. Truth is I chalked most of it up to a mother’s over protectiveness of her little chick. But my husband, a product of the boarding school system here in Ghana, first going off to Anum Boy’s...

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