Karl’s Chronicles. Article 15 Benin – Grand Popo
With Togo behind me, the coastal road continued flowing like one of Africa’s great rivers, staying close to the Atlantic after turning southeast from The Ivory Coast and Ghanaian...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 14 Togo: Between History & High Water.
Romantic poetry that had painted a slow boat to China had decompressed into a slow-boat to Togoville. A pirogue (a traditional fishing boat) was punted along the lethargic kidney-bean...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 13 Tamberma Country
Driving into Tamberma country contained all the splendour of entering a national park. With the tourism kiosk behind us, the landscape took on a wilder outlook void of people...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 12 Organic Monastic
‘Life is a school where the monks learn to dwell in listening to the word of God, in silence and recollection and in praise of his name and intercession...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 9 The Fetish Market
Boar skulls, calcium white with worn teeth and small tusks, had been lined up with the same passion for precision as a greengrocer. Though they had no eyes, one...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 6 Creative Minds
It doesn’t take long or with much effort to soon discover the various forms of artistic temperament beavering across this highly creative land. Ghana possesses a varied mantelpiece of...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 5 Food for Thought.
Great metal pots, all bubbling away in the backyard as if the place carried a penchants towards sorcery and witchcraft. On the table nearby lay a pile of fresh...