Tamale

Tuesday, 3 November. It is my first day working in the offices of the Daily Graphic – located, so to say, in the "bank centre" of Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana. Correspondent Zakaria Alhassan, his co-workers and the offices of the Daily Graphic reside on the third floor of Ghana Commercial Bank, one of the few multi-storey buildings in the sprawling city centre. more ...

Football is popular in Ghana, too, and on Sunday, Julia Littmann will be rooting for "ManU". more ...

On my way to town in the tro-tro, one of the countless lopsided share taxis. The woman up front next to the driver has a somewhat droopy guinea fowl on her lap and the two women next to me on the back seat hold huge, semicircular aluminium bowls in front of them; one of them full to the brim with mountains of light-yellow, deep-fried yam cakes, the other transporting red slices of watermelon, not piled heedlessly in the bowl but lovingly arranged like petals. more ...

Julia Littmann expected many things in Tamale – but not a bar with an Israeli name or the "Jesus Never Fails Boutique". more ...

Our reporter Julia Littmann is an experienced Freiburg cyclist, but the bike paths in Tamale are different. more ...

Thursday morning, nine o’clock under a mango tree in the rural compound in the north of Tamale: Prior to the relentlessly early press conference, Dr. Hajia Salamatu Ibrahim Taimaku already presided over an extended family meeting; the elderly lady is rather fatigued, yet just as attentive as she is cordial. more ...

Julia Littmann says farewell to Ghana. more ...

Julia Littmann is back in the here and now and will leave the oohing-and-aahing to her exchange partner from Tamale: Zakaria Alhassan. more ...

Kate Abaam concentrates as she takes measurements: arm length, shoulder width, hip size. Everything between the collar and hem of the skirt has to be just right. For almost nine years, the 29-year-old has had her own little business on Mariam Road between the Gifted Hands hairdresser and the Internet café. more ...

Dr. Abbas Adam recently took up his position at the Tamale Teaching Hospital equipped with some valuable state-of-the-art devices. Thanks to the support of businesses and the support of the Freiburg University Clinic, the neurosurgeon, who acquired an outstanding education in Minsk, Russia and Freiburg, Germany, returned to his home town of Tamale more ...

The African Kiss festival is a long tradition in Freiburg. It is well known that the event benefits both the enjoyment of the visitors and a project in Ghana. Julia Littmann was able to take advantage of the Goethe-Institut exchange programme with the Daily Graphic in Ghana to take a look at the AIM project on location – and received overwhelming response for the project from the population. more ...

Control of the ball is everything. When Rafia A-Rahaman dribbles against an opponent, it is easy to see that is exactly her strong suit: control of the ball. more ...