Takoradi is an industrial port city of half a million in the Western Region of Ghana. It’s not really on any travel itineraries, and if you want to know why, you should have a look at its very shor
t Wikipedia page, where the rundown of its industries (timber, shipbuilding, oil, energy, mining) is considerably longer than its tourist attractions.
But I went anyway, because I was born there. As travel writer Bill Bryson said – of his equally challenging birthplace, Des Moines – someone had to be.
I left when I was just under a year old – not on my own, you understand, got the folks to carry me – and, for years, never thought a whole lot about the land of my birth.
The French police were pretty sure I was an illegal immigrant
There were exotic baby pictures, it’s true, and I used to get hauled…
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Eureka! 