I am currently doing a market survey for a Swiss company called FIDES. The survey is done to look at the possibility to open rural microfinance activities in Northern Ghana. This task is therefore taking on the roads of the three Northern Regions of Ghana, which is a unique opportunity to discover new aspects of the country. I left Accra using the Volta Region road, to the East (along the Togo border) and arrived in Yendi, a place known for the tribal unrest. Here is the palace of the local chief, a blend of traditional African accommodation and modernity (the beautiful dish on the side!)
Northern Region has long and straight roads across the bush:
A little bit of music not to fall asleep...
The city of Salaga, in the South of Northern Region, was until the XIXth Century a huge slave center. Here is the old slave market:
Trucks on African roads are usually old trucks coming from Europe and used for years and years on local roads, which can be really bad at times. They are always overloaded and it is not rare to see them up-side-down, even when the road is good like here, between Tamale and Damongo.
A little pause next to Damongo, on the shore of an artificial lake:
Between Larabanga and Sawla, a view of the bush of Eastern Northern Region:
Northern Region has long and straight roads across the bush:
A little bit of music not to fall asleep...
The city of Salaga, in the South of Northern Region, was until the XIXth Century a huge slave center. Here is the old slave market:
Trucks on African roads are usually old trucks coming from Europe and used for years and years on local roads, which can be really bad at times. They are always overloaded and it is not rare to see them up-side-down, even when the road is good like here, between Tamale and Damongo.
A little pause next to Damongo, on the shore of an artificial lake:
Between Larabanga and Sawla, a view of the bush of Eastern Northern Region:
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