Celebrating a birthday in Zebilla- “What do I do?” I asked.
“Buy everyone Coca Cola,” was one reply.
For a number of sound reasons that was never going to
happen.
Instead I opted for sweets, a wise and popular choice. The lollipops,
with sticks that doubled as whistles, were extremely popular with the staff at
Ghana Education Service, and supplies were exhausted before I reached the local
children they were intended for, they having to make do with remaining plain
boiled sweets.
I also invited friends and sisters Fatima and Mouda, along
with their young children round for a meal, the deal being that I paid for the
ingredients but the Ghanaian women cooked. And so, amid dancing to recordings
on the mobile phone, crayoning, singing and general jollity an excellent jollof
rice and fish supper was prepared and enjoyed.
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| Fati and Mouda prepare vegetables and fry fish. |
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| .... and dance |
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| Nasallah (the white woman) joins in. |
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