After Ghana, the next stop on my West Africa tour was Cameroon. I had high hopes for Cameroon, as I really enjoyed Cote d’Ivoire when I visited some years ago, and as part of francophone Africa I was expecting them to be somewhat similar. Well…I was wrong. The first drama happened as soon as I …

Getting to Ghana was actually much more difficult than it should be. I was heading there for a badminton tournament and needed a tourist visa, which on its own sounds like no big deal. I was in Dubai at the time, so I called the Ghana embassy and asked for an appointment. When I told …