Thread: Employment Opportunities

BBC, what an incredible thread (i know its old). It is fantastic to be able to get a perspective that is positive, factual about these wonderful people. So many times we only hear the bad stuff which hides the fact that these people live in difficult times and yet are still welcoming to strangers such as yourself.

Thanks very much for sharing your life with us, and of course, having a Rover slant to some of the photos

Stay safe,

Carlos

Aaaaah! And it was only a couple of days ago I was thinking, "I wonder what BBC's up to?"
Good to see you back and thanks!
Cheers
Mike

BBC, I have deeply appreciated this thread. Especially the obvious respect you have for other cultures. Thank you!

Willem

Love your work mate!

Bloody brilliant mate!

Love this thread - truely captivating. You are the David Attenborough of people!

It certainly puts life into perspective, reading of the way in which other cultures live, laugh and love despite the challenges they face.

And we worry about wether or not we get our morning coffee...

Sunday I took a drive with a workmate back east along the coast to a town called Cape Coast. This piece of Africa has been known in the past as the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast. In turn, the Portuguese, Dutch, and then the English, exercised colonial control.

In exercising their control they established a series of fortifications along the coast. They utilized the dominant culture, the Ashanti, to gather slaves for export.

The road into Cape Coast from Takoradi. Cape Coast is situated 165km west of Accra:



Looking west:



The local fishing fleet. Not an outboard between them. They net and troll. Their ruined nets litter the beach:




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The Cape Coast Castle, a World Heritage site, has been around in different hands since the 15th Century. It is one of the largest and oldest slave trade castles in Ghana. It was converted into a castle by the Dutch in 1637.





The entrance on the bottom left hand corner of the photograph was for the male slaves, who were separated from the female slaves. They lived in complete darkness for months on end, living in close to half a metre of human detritus. Those who survived were then 'exported' to the Americas as slaves.



The female dungeons. Apparently a thousand women at a time were held captive in these small rooms - a third didn't survive their stay. Places like these are a very sad reminder of our capacity for cruelty.



The Germans persecuted the Jews for twisted ideological reasons….. slavery was the commercialism of it's time. The $buck has long reined over humanity

Then we had lunch at a local restaurant
This was Red Red & plantains, beans and deep fried plantain bananas; heavy fodder.



and, I had goat’s guts and cassava. It was spicy in a peppery sort of way.



No cutlery, hands were washed in a bowl with some detergent and then right hand only feeding.

More to follow when I get back to a better internet speed.

Originally Posted by BBC

No cutlery, hands were washed in a bowl with some detergent and then right hand only feeding.

The goat gut's looks OK. Not sure about the beans though.