Ghanaian Vignettes

Greetings from KNUST, aka Tek in the local shorthand. Campus has been our advance outpost here in Kumasi for our first 3 days of cultural exploration and product development.

After our exciting arrival in Kumasi, we have hit the streets hard to develop knowledge and ideas in two target areas, cassava processing and bee-related products. The team quickly acclimated to the searing heat and talkative locals. Initial forays to the labyrinthine Central Market gave us a survey of basic economic data on costs of materials and proximate products. We worked on our bartering skills and got no end of smiles for our garbled attempts at the local Twi dialect.