West Africa has some of the most porous borders in Africa. A legacy of colonialism you could say. The bright side is that it has helped foster and facilitate regional integration--as exemplified by the West Africa regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a fifteen-member bloc that has been in existence since 1975. Togo is also a member, and in this picture, after having being dropped off by a colleague's family, back in 2004, I took this picture to capture how really fluid the Togo-Ghana border was.
See those people walking into and through that arch? That territory there is...Togo!! and the area where the 4X4 is...Ghana! The Black star on the arch, like Ghana's flag could be construed as an indication that you're in anglophone Ghana!
4 comments:
E.K. Bensah II (I don't know your name), I love your photos especially when -like this one- teach me something of your country. I'm greedy of these kind of photo. Thank you !!!
I think this is a good photograph and an interesting story with it.
fabrizio ikol22--many thanks! grazie! that's the name!;-))
abraham--thanks, Mr president..;-)
good photograph!
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