Category: Accra
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Encountering Food in the Field, Centering it in Development Studies
Why aren’t rich and tasty food cultures more central to development efforts?
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Trotro Advice for Surviving Fieldwork
Let these wise taxis and trotros guide you through fieldwork’s unexpected challenges.
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Joking in the dark
A friend (you know who you are) recently remarked that my blog doesn’t tell much about life in Accra. So let’s talk about dumsor. Ghana (and Accra especially) has been suffering terrible power outages for the last three years. The intolerable situation is nicknamed “dumsor” – on/off. Here in Accra, dumsor is a daily topic: “how…