While I have my women in India, I am traveling across Northern Ghana. I reached Upper West Region, whose capital city Wa is quite a charming, calm little town:
Traveling North, I again come close to the border with Burkina Faso, as the Black Volta materializes the border between the two countries.
Some border crossing happening, without anyone to stamp the passport of course...
A magnificent baobab on the road from Lawra to Nandom, towards the upper West corner of Ghana:
A small bridge on the way:
In Nandom, a city located in the upper West corner of the country, the market is full of vultures:
Kids are playing football, training hard to become as good as Michael Essien or Stephen Appiah:
The cathedral of Nandom is believed to be the biggest stone cathedral of West Africa... Quite unexpected to find a structure like this in such a remote, small town:
The inside of the cathedral:
Hardly 10 km North of Nandom is the border point with Burkina Faso, in the city of Hamile:
From Hamile, either one goes to Burkina Faso, or one goess to the East, in direction of the small city of Gwallu, home to former President of the IIIrd Republic of Ghana Illa Liman. Liman was put in place through election after J.J. Rawlings first coup in 1979 and later ousted by the same Rawlings on 31st December, 1981, as the latter felt Liman was unable to put the country back on track and to get rid of corruption. Liman later died in his village of Gwallu in 1998, where his brother is still the local traditional chief. Here is his grave:
And here is Bukari Bakuri Liman, the youngest brother of late Illa Liman...
Gwallu is also famous for its slave defense wall, built some 150 years ago. At that point of time, local chief got the idea to build a circular wall to protect his population from raid of tribes coming from nowadays Mali who would enslave them. Only some pieces of this wall now remain, one of which is very close to the palace of the chief where Liman is burried:
Traveling North, I again come close to the border with Burkina Faso, as the Black Volta materializes the border between the two countries.
Some border crossing happening, without anyone to stamp the passport of course...
A magnificent baobab on the road from Lawra to Nandom, towards the upper West corner of Ghana:
A small bridge on the way:
In Nandom, a city located in the upper West corner of the country, the market is full of vultures:
Kids are playing football, training hard to become as good as Michael Essien or Stephen Appiah:
The cathedral of Nandom is believed to be the biggest stone cathedral of West Africa... Quite unexpected to find a structure like this in such a remote, small town:
The inside of the cathedral:
Hardly 10 km North of Nandom is the border point with Burkina Faso, in the city of Hamile:
From Hamile, either one goes to Burkina Faso, or one goess to the East, in direction of the small city of Gwallu, home to former President of the IIIrd Republic of Ghana Illa Liman. Liman was put in place through election after J.J. Rawlings first coup in 1979 and later ousted by the same Rawlings on 31st December, 1981, as the latter felt Liman was unable to put the country back on track and to get rid of corruption. Liman later died in his village of Gwallu in 1998, where his brother is still the local traditional chief. Here is his grave:
And here is Bukari Bakuri Liman, the youngest brother of late Illa Liman...
Gwallu is also famous for its slave defense wall, built some 150 years ago. At that point of time, local chief got the idea to build a circular wall to protect his population from raid of tribes coming from nowadays Mali who would enslave them. Only some pieces of this wall now remain, one of which is very close to the palace of the chief where Liman is burried:
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