So there I was working some fifty minutes ago when I hear a sound in the distance. Minutes later, and the sound comes closer--it's of a man speaking through a megaphone "SHARP YOUR KNIFE!...SHARP YOUR KNIFE!". He's a picture of the average "working class" Ghanaian who is doing his utmost to do something for himself. (Far better tha resorting to armed robbery, if you ask me!)
He was walking with his sidekick--megaphone slung over his shoulder, and clad in a sun and dust-beaten t-shirt and trousers in an ironically determined manner.
I could have sworn I heard him earlier--just as I was about to leave the house, which is some twenty minutes drive, with little traffic, from the office. That was around 8.15am.
To think that around 11.05am, he had walked the equivalent of twenty minutes drive by car, some 8 km from the Estates to the busy Spintex Road through the East Legon tunnel to my workplace was not just amazing, but a feat of epic proportions, given the weather. And he must have had some customers along the way, too.
Regrettably, I took this picture to capture the "before he arrived" and "this is him" from the office--but no go!
Maybe next time!
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accra;accra tales;accra by day;ghana;east legon;middle class ghana;working class ghana;
4 comments:
Hello from New Zealand. I must need new glasses because all I can see is trees !!! (hehe)
Click on my name if you want to see my blogs and no you don't need glasses - there are a few !!!
Hi Kelvin! the opening in between the trees is where I was expecting to see him emerge;-( Greetings!
Hello from Hong Kong,
I'm a french man who spend one years in Ghana, mostly in upper region but I feel really good to see again some picture of this great country that is Ghana.
I think the way you framed the photo with the palm fronds is interesting.
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