Thursday, September 17, 2009

Where is Ghana?

Not quite sure how many of you know where exactly Ghana is. Actually I wasn't so sure myself till I check out the map. So to save my dear readers precious time, here's a map of Africa. (Ghana's on the west side of Africa)



And for more information about Ghana, check out wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

So which part of Ghana will I be working in? It's this place called Obuasi. According to wiki and my guidebook, Obuasi is Ghana's most important gold-mining centre, one of the ten largest in the world. Obuasi is also noted for the great healthcare facilities such as AGA Hospital owned by Anglo Gold and also a private health facility, St. Jude Hospital, owned by Dr. George Owusu-Asiedu. Just realised that too! So I shouldn't be too worried about getting sick there after all. And for those of you thinking I would be staying in some mud hut, relax. It is described in the guidebook as "presenting itself to the tourist as a large sprawl of concrete dwellings and 'shops'".



Not too sure if you can see Obuasi on the map above. (It's on the diagonal upper right of WESTERN.)

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