Team Ghana just returned from Adoumkhroum, a tiny (~200 people) town in the middle of the northern Ghana jungle. We arrived Wednesday morning, and returned today (Friday). We don’t have a lot of time to write now, as we’re en route back to Suame Magazine to do some last minute peeler prototyping, but highlights from the Adoumkhrom trip include:
- - Digging in a day-old gold mine outside the town
- - Watching Act One (Scenes 1-4) of “The Rich Man”, a play put on for us by the kids in the village
- - Making gari, banku, and fufu from scratch (traditional Ghanaian dishes with cassava)
- - Machete-ing our way through the jungle (harvested a cassava and palm tree)
- - Seeing a cocoa farm and palm oil processing facility (cocoa beans are not as tasty as expected)
- - Conducting lots of market research about opportunities for cassava processing
- - Interviewing rural beekeepers and touring their hives
- - Getting a little grungy in 110 degree weather without water or electricity for 3 days!
We leave tomorrow (Saturday) morning for Accra. We’re stopping along the way in Cape Coast, a town on Ghana’s Southern shore, where we’ll visit a 19th century slave castle, and we fly out Sunday evening. Internet is in and out (mostly out) here at the guesthouse, which is why Team Ghana has been slacking on blog/twitter posts. Will post again soon given time/internet.
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