Accra really has no "central" district like Abuja. Henry thus made way towards the coast where the central tourist accractions, the Castle, (the Ghanian State house), the Independence square and the Kwame Nkurmah mausoleum are. The Fadama region, is quite some distance away. A garrison of quasi identical neighbourhoods all splashed themselves to the right and left of the pickup.
The national theater was a architectural statement, like all national theatres I suppose.
Accra has a central cenotaph to the founding fathers of the African union. The faces of Nasser, Tafawa Balewa, Haile Selassie stamped on a billboard made them smaller than life. They were Continental giants, the makers of mordern Africa. The cenotaph did make up for the disrespect.
Then the Atlantic. It came out of the blue if you get what I mean. An ocean is at once frightening and placid."This is the route to the Castle, where the President lives." It had to be. Living next to the Atlantic should help compensate (for better or worse) an African leader's ambition.
Thomas Carlye said, history is the lives of men. So I guess the autobiography of Ghana is the life of Kwame Nkrumah
The national theater was a architectural statement, like all national theatres I suppose.
Accra has a central cenotaph to the founding fathers of the African union. The faces of Nasser, Tafawa Balewa, Haile Selassie stamped on a billboard made them smaller than life. They were Continental giants, the makers of mordern Africa. The cenotaph did make up for the disrespect.
Then the Atlantic. It came out of the blue if you get what I mean. An ocean is at once frightening and placid."This is the route to the Castle, where the President lives." It had to be. Living next to the Atlantic should help compensate (for better or worse) an African leader's ambition.
Thomas Carlye said, history is the lives of men. So I guess the autobiography of Ghana is the life of Kwame Nkrumah
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