At Meet Me There African Home Lodge, you bath in an open bathroom, you use sawdust to decompose your toilet and wash your hand in a ceramic bowl. They don’t allow plastics. You drink from one reusable water bottle throughout your stay. The standard here is one that allows you to feel the “village” life...
While under lockdown and with the academic term over, I decided to pass the time by working on a novel I started last year. The novel is set in nineteenth-century Ewedome (1844-1872) and tells the story of an Eweme town during the Asante War of 1869-1872. My motivation for exploring such a theme is three-fold:...
Mr Chris Amewu, Volta Regional Director of GSS, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said a little over 4,000 people were taken through training and that the 3,793 were selected based on their performance. He said the first phase of the exercise, which constituted the identification of structures and assigning specific numbers...
Who throws stones into a compound of unripe mango trees? No one. In the same vein the Ewe have beome targets of tribal and ethnic bigotry because they are ripe. The problem with bigots is that when they don’t understand you, they either hate you, despise you or even eliminate you, or look at you...
Volta Region, the only region named after one of Ghana’s important landmarks (River Volta) is one the most peaceful regions in the country. A region that shares boundaries with about five other regions. If the people were Arabs I would suggest a re-christening of the region to Dare Salam. Legend has it that, the people...
Biblica, an International Bible Society, will on Friday launch the ‘Agbenya La’ the new contemporary Ewe Bible, in Ho. The launch will take place at the Dela Cathedral of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPCG) at Ho Kpodzi. A letter copied to the Ghana News Agency and jointly signed by Mr Thomas Amoah, the Regional...
The 2019 National HIV Report released by the Ghana AIDS Commission and National AIDS Control Programme revealed that the Hohoe has an HIV prevalence at 1. 6 per cent, higher than the Volta Regional prevalence of 1.5 per cent. Mr Andrews Teddy Ofori, the Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) said “the 1.6 per cent prevalence...
Right place, right information about mountains and reserves in Volta at the right time. #ExploreVolta
We have come far but not too far to look back on our history. Visit these selected historical sites to appreciate time.#TourVolta