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Cufflinks in Kete-Krachi
GILLBT 50th Anniversary cloth The Ghanaian organization Dayle and I work with is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As in many African countries, on such occasions an organization will have special...
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Dying languages
You may have heard that a large number of the world’s languages are dying. That may have caused you to wonder if it might be a waste to translate the Bible into those languages. That is a very good...
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How to dress for church in Tamale
I know. I know. You may never come to Tamale and so you will never need to know how to dress for church there. So classify this as entertainment. Worship team in church in Tamale seen from the pews I...
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Who would have guessed?
Short wave radio was how I got most of my world news in the 1980s when I lived in Burkina Faso. BBC broadcasted a 5-minute summary of world news on the hour. I would turn on my compact shortwave radio...
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Advice from Ghana Taxi Windows
Ghanaians love to put interesting sayings on their vehicles and shops. Often they are quotes from the Bible and, almost as often, quotes of traditional sayings, some of which sound like they might come...
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Counted
The Nawuri traditional Chief had traveled a long and difficult road from northern Ghana with his entourage to attend the celebration of GILLBT‘s 50th anniversary, where he was presented with the first...
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The Ram, the Lion and the Lamb
This is our second Christmas in Ghana. We are celebrating by posting again what we posted for our first Christmas. It is uniquely Ghanaian. Ghana has a rich history, culture and beliefs. Long before...
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Kente
Young man weaving Kente cloth When we lived in Burkina Faso we were introduced to strip weaving. Using simple looms, hand-made out of branches and strips of home-cured leather, men wove beautiful...
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What’s in a name
In the US, we don’t notice names that have meaning as long as they are common names, especially girls names. So Hope, Faith and Rose are seen as normal. In fact, we might not even think about their...
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Undeserved
John Daboney This is John Daboney, a Ghanaian from the Nawuri language. He is holding his copy of the Nawuri New Testament at its dedication on November 23. John was the main reviewer for the...
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A New Key
Dr. Solomon Sule-Saa presenting a summary of his research to September conference I have written before about Solomon Sule-Saa, a Ghanaian who has done extensive research on the impact of translating...
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Ghanaisms
English is a world language. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that English is a whole bunch of national and regional languages which all have the same name and have a lot of similarity to...
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Ansre
Michael Serchie, Gilbert Ansre and Ed One of my great joys in Ghana is working with Gilbert Ansre (pronounced like haunts-ray without the h). I had heard about him years ago when we worked in Burkina...
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Harmattan
Papaya tree in sunset during Harmattan in Accra Harmattan is a weather pattern in Africa in which dry, dust-laden winds from the Sahara desert in the north blow south. For most of the year, the winds...
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The Mango
Our first posting in Africa was in 1978 to a small town in Burkina Faso and we got our first real introduction to mangoes. Mangoes During the rainy season, the mango tree produces new leaves, but no...
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Funny or stupid
When you are in a cross-cultural situation and you see something that strikes you as funny or stupid, do three things: Assume that the “funny” or “stupid” thing makes sense from some perspective Assume...
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Universal humor
It appears to be universal that people turn problems into humor, especially when the problems come from their government, or from an important institution. When we first moved to Kenya, the country...
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Translation and democracy II
In a recent blog, I wrote about the book Wide as the Waters, by Benson Bobrick. The subtitle of the book “The story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired”, captures my conclusion....
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Medicine
Medicine, it’s a simple word, right? Well, not quite. I first realized that it might have a broader meaning when a single colleague of mine told of an experience she had while traveling by public...
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Refueling
2010 official World Cup poster by FIFA. Found on a kiosk selling prepaid cell phone airtime in Kintembu, Ghana During the 2006 World Cup (a huge, world-wide soccer championship), I traveled into Congo...
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