A new era.
I have done this so many times, it’s starting to get ridiculous. If I’m not mistaken, I’ve opened, closed, re-opened, re-closed my blog about 11 times since it saw daylight first time back in 2002....
View ArticlePolitical Correctness: According to the dictionaries
Alright. It took me about a gazillion months to follow up on my initial post here. Why? It doesn’t matter. I haven’t had the time, and I believe that I even specified that I had no idea how often this...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness: According to the conspiracist
In my last post, I promised a kind of part II on my little exploration of the concept of political correctness. According to what I found out in part I, PC seems like a relatively harmless thing. Do...
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Taking a break, warming up
A short, informal and wonderful concert with an unknown band playing West-African inspired reggea-ish music at Oranienburger Tor last Saturday. I ended up on a cement block with a Berliner Pilsner in...
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Skjomen: A forgotten beauty
My brother and his small, little family is visiting Norway these days, and we used the opportunity to travel to Narvik together and see places where we spent so many summers as kids. It’s the first...
View ArticleI’m there.
I arrived Accra in the evening last friday, hoping to be able to reach the hotel bar before they close. I did. For a while, I wasn’t too sure that I actually would though, since the line at passport...
View ArticleThe art of making an entrance
After spending a few days in Accra organizing some of the practicalities for my fieldwork and hanging out with Eva, I have finally reached the location where I will spend the coming year. We used about...
View ArticleHow to make someone declare their love 101
How do you make someone say ”I love you” to you, without letting them know that they have ever said it? I have a suggestion. I believe that I have just been the victim of one of the weirdest scams,...
View ArticleIt’s never a waste of time.
One of the things that you can say for certain about long term fieldwork like the one I’m in the middle of right now, is that you are bound to have some extremely boring days and you are bound to have...
View ArticleWhen home is away
After a couple of weeks of waiting, discussing, confusion and frustration, I have finally bought my first car. Who would have guessed that the first car I would ever own would be a Ghana registered...
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