"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
06/05/2015 at 08:38 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
06/05/2015 at 08:38 • Filed to: None | 0
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In the city I used to live in, Accra Ghana there has been terrible flooding recently. Unfortunately it seems that during the flooding the gasoline at a petrol station near the main Tro tro station (Circle) somehow escaped it’s holding tanks and then subsequently caught fire. You can see two tro tro’s in this picture.
The resulting carnage was not pretty. Around 90 people were thought to have died.
The devastation was immense.
People try to save their cars from the flood waters here below :(
The country has declared 3 days of national mourning. Accra, like many developing capitals has suffered from inadequate drainage and infrastructure for sometime. Hopefully this tragedy will convince people to take better care of their waterways. Already the president is promising to remove the illegal structures perched on them.
Proper waste disposal would help immensely I think. In Accra usually what happens is it won’t rain for a while, and then all of the sudden it downpours as if the world is about to end. During the dry spells the gutters can become filled with garbage. The government should create some jobs and hire some “gutter dredgers” whom would pick out the trash.
That would have probably helped a bit, although to be honest there was been so much rain that flooding was more or less inevitable I think.
Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 09:00 |
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This is so terrible. I was stunned when I saw the headline yesterday.
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thebigbossyboss
> Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
06/05/2015 at 09:09 |
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It was super sad. :(
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 10:12 |
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You used to live there?? My mom’s family is originally from and still there!!
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thebigbossyboss
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
06/05/2015 at 10:21 |
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Does she make good banku??? I would like to come visit. Do they speak pidgin?
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thebigbossyboss
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
06/05/2015 at 10:48 |
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Does she make good banku?? I hope so!!
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K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 10:51 |
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I’m not particularly sure, I’ll have to ask about it. My mom does make some badass okra soup and fish soup. Eat that with kenkey or fufu and it’s brilliant! I don’t think she speaks pidgin. But they mostly speak Ewe from my experience; my mom knows French as well.
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thebigbossyboss
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
06/05/2015 at 10:57 |
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Oh ok. So they are from Volta region then. Volta is really nice.
Banku is like kenkey or fufu same sort of idea. Fufu is goddamn delicious. You are making me hungry K roll.
Here is me eating fufu and antelope. I am the white guy.
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K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 11:04 |
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I had no idea there were regions in Accra. I’m ashamed to say this, but I haven’t really gone in depth or really taken much interest in my mom’s culture. :(
This makes we really wanna look into it again when I have the chance. My mom went back to visit last summer, but I haven’t been back in at least 12 years back in elementary school. I will say that my mom whipped up a batch of fish soup with kenkey last night and I will be having it for the first time in years for dinner! I’m very excited about that! If you ever come to Michigan, she’d happily cook for just about ever, all this food!
I haven’t had antelope before though, how is it?
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thebigbossyboss
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
06/05/2015 at 11:20 |
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It was good. My buddy on the right there got a piece of the shot gun shell in his though haha.
It’s similar to venison.
Volta is not a region of Accra, it is most like a state or province.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta_Reg…
If your mom is speaking Ewe, originally her family is not of the ethnic group that traditionally lived in Accra. Her family may live there now, but Ewe is generally spoken in the Eastern Region and Volta Regions of Ghana. The ethnic group that is from the Accra area originally speak Ga I think.