One big unknown before setting off on my trip to Accra, Lomé and Porto-Novo was what the vegetarian food situation would be like in West Africa.
The distance between Cape Coast, the former capital of the British Colony once known as The Gold Coast, and Accra is only 148km (92mi), but it can easily take 3.5 hours to travel the road between the two cities by shared taxi.
Dozens of languages are spoken in Accra, but the two you will most often come across are Twi (in Greater Accra) and Ga (in Jamestown, where the Ga people settled almost two centuries ago).
It’s not that museums and monuments don’t exist in places like Accra, but rather that they lie under the radar, like items on a scavenger hunt waiting to be tracked down. You have to work a little bit to learn where these places are and how to get there.
After my time spent in Accra delving into Ghana’s rich, modern history, I realized just how inadequate my schooling was in regards to anything Africa.