Get the Pledge

This is Ghana from a helicopter during the Governor General's visit last month.



This is Ghana from the airplane this week.



That haze is the Harmattan, a wind that blows in from the Sahara every winter, bringing half of the desert with it. Everything, and everyone, is covered with a fine layer of grit. Those with weaker constitutions get respiratory infections, cough up mud and pull plugs of clay from their nostrils. The upside is that it's drier and cooler (even the African sun can't penetrate such a thick cloud of dust) but the downside is that it's still humid, so instead of just being sweaty, you're muddy.

Yay.