Breaking news: I have just cooked for the first time in Ghana. Either the gas is on for good or it decided to cooperate with me today for just long enough to throw breakfast together. I boiled tap water to make instant coffee with and fried two eggs in about a pound of butter. I toasted two thick slices of Ghanaian bread -- somewhere between French and Wonderbread -- and topped them with my eggs, whose yolks were curiously white. Over all that, my market prize from yesterday -- real cheddar cheese. I didn't have any salt or pepper and the instant Nescafe is like sludge, but this was one of the best meals I have ever eaten. I am a wholly satisfied man.
Included some pictures for fun. One is a lizard sitting in on an outdoor lecture at the academic center. The other two are from an ancient and crumbling slave fort in Accra, which was hosting a boisterous Sunday prayer service when we stumbled upon it last Sunday. It's been reclaimed by homes, shops, and murals depicting its history.
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