Earlier this month, I spent a week in Ghana through our partnership with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement. Our brains were buzzing with learning about statistical tools and models to help support quality improvement projects, as well as frameworks for decision-making and scaling up projects.
While most of the week was spent in a conference room, we did explore the city a bit during the week. Here are some photos around Accra...
The Mausoleum of Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana and a strong proponent of pan-Africanism in the latter-half of the 20th century:
Obama everywhere!
At the arts market... I became obsessed with trade beads and their history. They were used between the 16th and 20th centuries as a currency to exchange for goods, services, and slaves (so were sometimes called slave beads). Accra is seeped with history related to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...James Fort was a major slave trading fort (and is currently still used as a prison).
At the arts market... I became obsessed with trade beads and their history. They were used between the 16th and 20th centuries as a currency to exchange for goods, services, and slaves (so were sometimes called slave beads). Accra is seeped with history related to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...James Fort was a major slave trading fort (and is currently still used as a prison).
At night, we feasted on amazing seafood and coconut drinks (while ironically enough, watching the Commonwealth Games in Delhi -- complete with a cooking show on Indian cooking).
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