Jamestown, Ghana

   

Don & Carol Deshler, Us, Ron & Jenny Doan, Natalie Hobdy, Kelly Sackley

 Built in 1673, Fort James was established as a trading post, first for gold and later for human slaves. It is now a fishing village of the Ga People with the lighthouse towering over some of the poorest neighborhoods in Accra.

Ga businesses are usually run by the women in society, who control all the money in the household.  The men sail along the Ghanian Coast to catch fish and bring them back to Accra.  The women then smoke and prepare the fish before bringing them to market to sell.

                          The shoreline of all the Accra beaches have become a collection for trash.  Trash is left on the streets so the rains carry it to the rivers which lead to the ocean which the tides bring back onto the

beach.

       

An old grain silo

Hand sewing holes in the fishing nets.

Jamestown is also know for its boxing gyms and has prodocued its share of champions, whose fading posters now adorn club walls, including Azumah "The Professor" Nelson, who many consider as the greatest African boxer.

Our Walk Around Town

Hair Salon

This is what gaming looks like in Jamestown

School library

Classroom

A new church bulding  under construction.  Members currently meet in the old Post Office Building

Entrance to underground tunnel 

Underground tunnel for slaves who had to be transported from one part of town to beach where they could be loaded on ships.