The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Ghana: Accra
Accra: Black Star Square
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| Black Star Square: Independence Arch
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| Guide Princess + Driver Chuks
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| View from Independence Arch
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| Reviewing stand (?)
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| WWI & WWII Unknown Solider
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Accra: National Museum
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| Stool in Traditional Style (1993)
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Janus-headed statue
Signage suggests a Roman influence
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| Spider "Ananse" symbolizes unity in diversity
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Accra: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
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| Kwame Nkrumah statue
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| Statues of traditional musicians
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| Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum / Memorial
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| Kwame Nkrumah Tomb
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| "I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me."
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Accra: National Mosque of Ghana
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National Mosque of Ghana
Inspired by the Blue Mosque
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| Ottoman-influenced tiles
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Ghana: Cape Coast
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle was the first European fort in sub-saharan Africa, from 1482, used for the slave trade.
Founded by the Portuguese, then taken by the Dutch, then the British.
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| Elmina Castle
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| Courtyard, with ugly Portuguese Church
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| "Slave Cell"
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| "Slave Cell"
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| "Gate of No Return"
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View to Fort St. Jago
A more defensible Dutch hilltop fort
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Cape Coast Castle
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| Cape Coast interior courtyard
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| Slave Cell
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| Slave Cell
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| Slave Cell
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Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan
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"Tower F"
At 75 stories and 421 meters, it will be Africa's tallest building.
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| "Tower F"
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Place de la République
With a remarkably ugly obelisk
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| Plateau Salam Mosque
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| Plateau Salam Mosque
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| La Pyramide (1973)
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| La Pyramide
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| La Pyramide interior
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| Graham, at football monument
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| My guide, Ama
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St Paul Cathedral
Weight held externally, by cables to tower.
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| New bridge
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Adidjan: Grand-Bassam
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| Grand-Bassam: Colonial-era building
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| Grand-Bassam: Colonial-era building
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| Grand-Bassam: Colonial-era building
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| Costume Museum
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| Costumes Museum: An Ivorian King
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| Costume Museum: Ceremonial stool
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| Charming little lizards
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| Ocean view
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Côte d'Ivoire: Yamoussoukro
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| Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
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| Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
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Palm Sunday scene
Including President Félix himself!
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| Giant outer colonnades
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| First President's Palace + Crocdile Pool
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| Presidential Crocodiles
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| Presidential Crocodiles
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| Presidential Memorial Complex
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| Presidential Memorial Complex
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| President Boigny Félix Houphouët
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| Hotel President
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Cameroon: Douala
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Liberty Monument (1996)
Made from "found" objects.
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| St Peter & Paul Cathedral
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| St Peter & Paul Cathedral
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| Mbappé Léppé statue
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| Stadium named for Mbappé Léppé
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| Maritime Museum: Traditional Prow
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| La Pagode
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Monument to Dr Gustav Nachtigan
A 19th c German explorer.
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Memorial to Free French General Leclerc
Who seized Cameroon for the Free French in 1940
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Equatorial Guinea: Malabo
Malabo, on the island of Bioko, was formerly the capital of Equatorial Guinea, up until 2026.
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| Bioko was known as "Fernando Poo" in the Spanish colonial era.
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| Malabo: St Elizabeth Cathedral
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| Colonial-era Fountain
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| Malabo: Centro Cultural Ecuatoguineano
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Malabo: Bioko Island Tour
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| View at Rebola
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| Church at Santiago de Baney
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| Church at Bacake Grande
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| Lots of green forest
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| Batete Cathedral
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| Batete Cathedral
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Monument to Spanish Landing (1788)
After they obtained the island from the Portuguese
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Benin ++
