{"id":1055,"date":"2017-10-19T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=894"},"modified":"2018-10-19T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:08:11","slug":"among-the-dagomba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2017\/10\/19\/among-the-dagomba\/","title":{"rendered":"Among the Dagomba"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning we left the big city and flew up north to Tamale, the home of the Dagomba people. \u00a0They speak Dagbani. \u00a0Some of the tribes have closely related languages. \u00a0For the next few days we will be here recording Bible stories, choirs, and community health information in their native language.<\/p>\n

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Landed in Tamale, ready to explore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A typical Dagomba compound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here in northern Ghana, many people \u00a0live in traditional, circular huts arranged to ring a courtyard with one entrance. \u00a0Thatched roofs \u00a0 are much cooler than corrugated steel, and cheaper as well.<\/p>\n

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Matthew tries Fu Fu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At lunch, Michael and Matthew tried some of Stella’s Fu Fu, the white doughy blobs in the bowl. \u00a0It is beaten cassava root. \u00a0After pinching off some Fu Fu in your fingers, it is to be dipped in the spicy red soup — in this case, cow intestine was the special of the day.<\/p>\n

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With our driver Ebeneezer, who is also studying audio engineering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(From Michael and Matthew): Hello from Accra! We woke up this morning after getting a full night\u2019s rest to another 5 star meal of pancakes, scrambled eggs, and homemade bread provided by the Korums. This was followed by another thorough inspection of our bags and ping pong with Levi Korum. Ebenezer was generous enough to give us a ride through the craziness of Accra while local Ghanaians tried to sell us anything and everything imaginable from the sides of the road. Finally, we await to depart from Accra to Tamale after an eye-opening experience of Ghanaian politics in sending off our bags.\u00a0 We are so excited to reach the north and begin our work there, but for now, we wait.<\/p>\n

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I could not get a smile…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Generally, I can make even the stubbornest of kids crack a bit of a smile… but this young boy just watch suspiciously as we strolled in the evening light of golden hour.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Monday’s wife runs a small sewing school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A local woman working on dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I got a smirk… no smile, but a smirk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are well fed, and ready for work. \u00a0Our guest house has all the creature comforts of home. \u00a0Well… maybe only 1\/2 of that is actually true. \u00a0But we have everything we need and then some.<\/p>\n

Ray’s truck has been fixed, so in the morning, before dawn, he will begin the day-long drive from Accra to Tamale. \u00a0Joshua is here with us, and a wonderful woman, Stella, from Pastor Monday’s tribe, is playing chauffeur until Ray arrives.<\/p>\n

In the morning we will cook some breakfast ourselves and then head to the church to begin our day.<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n

-Pete & Beth & Michael & Matthew.<\/p>\n

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This morning we left the big city and flew up north to Tamale, the home of the Dagomba people. \u00a0They speak Dagbani. \u00a0Some of the tribes have closely related languages. \u00a0For the next few days we will be here recording Bible stories, choirs, and community health information in their native language. Here in northern Ghana, … Continue reading Among the Dagomba<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}