The White Volta River flows east to west just a few miles north of me and I’ve hiked down the Gambaga Escarpment to it several times. I recently visited a section of the river that appeared to have some rapids in Google’s satellite imagery. I was trying to find the exact spot that Dr. Rudolf […]
2002 Mampruli Bible Dedication Video
Someone recently posted this 15 year old video of the Mampruli Bible dedication in 2002.
The Domes of Fabedougou
Just north of the town of Banfora, Burkina Faso and past the sugar cane fields there are some incredible rock formations. Geologists identify these cool domes as being Mesoproterozoic sandstone formed by millennia of erosion. As awesome as their geological history is, they are even more awesome to climb, hike and get lost in! We visited […]
Trey’s 11th Birthday Party
Trey’s birthday was in August but he postponed his party until all his friends and his grandparents were in town. So on September 4, we celebrated at our house and had our friend Baby bake another delicious cake for us. Some of the games Trey and his friend played were tag, water balloons, capture the […]
Traditional Mamprusi Hunting Songs
Zɔkri of Nalerigu, Ghana is a soothsayer but also plays a two-stringed banjo and flute that his late father passed down to him. The guitar is made of goat skin over a gourd with the strings being rubber strips. We visited him on July 17, 2017 with musicologist Sarai Brinker and our language teacher Philip Jangdow. […]
Mɔkyeeriba or The Chief’s Horse Grass Cutters
Mɔkyeeriba means “grass cutters” in Mampruli and is a slang term for young men who are eligible for chieftaincy. The label comes from the fact that chiefs used to send their young sons and grandsons out every day to cut grass for their horses. Very few chiefs own horses these days, but the paramount chief […]
Happy 2nd Birthday, KJ!
William was away on KJ’s actual birthday so we celebrated when he returned two weeks later. We invited several of her and Trey’s Ghanaians friends over for some play time and cake. Our friend Baby made a delicious chocolate & vanilla layer cake. The trampoline and new slide on the treehouse were a big hit with […]
Dust Devil!
Trey chases a massive dust devil that whirls through our compound.
Worship at Zambulugu Baptist Church
Zambulugu is a village about 3 miles east of us. The church congregation is always predominantly women and children and they love to sing. They’ll spend more than half the service in song and dance!