I realized it about fifteen seconds after we turned left at the “Burma Camp Cantonment” sign on Independence Road. Something was bothering me, but I couldn’t put my finger on […]

Oh Accra, you crazy city, you. Way behind on the updates, of course. Yesterday: morning at g|Ghana, mingling with developers, then afternoon at the Google Accra office, setting up some […]

Okay – airborne out of Lagos, enroute to Accra. Departure day was almost entirely uneventful, not counting some amusing/annoying security theater on the way out. Luisella was in charge of […]

The moment: we’re dancing, outdoors, under canopy on a rooftop somewhere near the ocean. Juliet, the Lagos office manager, has pulled me from my seat, and I stumble through my […]

Starting out on this adventure, I found myself wondering whether I should start a separate blog somewhere else so that I didn’t have to worry about calling my mother to […]

Approaching the coast of Dakar, the ambien haze lifts enough to let me sit up and look around. I’ve woken early, and will still be under the sway of Mephistopheles Morpheus […]

Crossing that gap between the preparation and actual start of a trip is an imperceptible thing. When you’re knee deep in unanswered voicemail to some West African consulate that won’t […]

There’s something unearthly about being in seat 64K on a British Airways 747. The fact that an airplane can be large enough to have 64 rows and still lift itself […]

This has been Glen’s constant refrain the past few days. Recall that we’re in Ghana as an advance trip for a group that’s going to be brought over early next […]