Life in Accra

Life in Accra may be sweet, bitter, interesting or boring depending on what you do for a living, where you live and how organized or disorganized you are. People I know will not travel out of Accra for anything in this world but others too will not sleep in Accra for anything in this world. Ask me, I love Accra for several reasons and hate Accra for several other reasons. I love Accra because I can meet all the people I wish to meet in life and also because everything happens in Accra (Dzigbodi). Get all the schools I want my children to attend, watch all the TV channels I wish if I ever get the time to. Oh! I missed this point, food! Food is so cheap I can not imagine Accra has no farmlands. It is abnormally abundant, well price and interestingly segregated. I hate Accra because food; though cheaply priced, is mostly not fresh. Adawso in the Eastern Region, Tapa Abotoase in the Volta Region provide more natural states of food. Even cooked food in Accra is bromate filled. Abnormal traffic jam is what makes Accra more boring and stressful. I live somewhere uphill on the Akuapem ridge; you can imagine the difference in the environment. Pollution verses no pollution; natural food verses artificial food, more space for few people verses small space for more people. In fact Accra is not my favourite city in this world. By 4am, my friends who live somewhere within Accra and work in Accra are up, running helter skelter to avoid traffic and stress. Though work starts at 8am, they have to sacrifice some rest to avoid stress. That is even more stressful to start with. My good friend and brother Quansah has no car of his own and lives about 45 minutes drive from his office. My friend sometimes joins winding queues and stays in these queues for only God knows how long. My home to work is below 15 minutes and I leave just that time in between home and office. Enough rest, hard work, marvellous out put. I still want to leave all the goodies in Accra for a better life in the villages. Having lived in and around Accra for a long time, my set up in the village is disorganized. I have been using the past three or so years fixing it. Soon, I will move out of Accra to settle beside my cages for a more environmentally friendly life, devoid of pollution, traffic jam, noise, mosquito bites and stench.