Mole Stories


Larabunga

Larabunga , a village of 12 clans, 100% Muslum, houses the oldest mosque in Ghana. Yet nobody seems to agree on just how old or exactly who built it. Locals, through oral tradition, date it to 1421 and credit it's construction to an Islamic trader named Ayuba. They believe that he was traveling through when he came across the "mystic stone" that lies...


Traveling

I sit in the back of the bus, sweat dripping from every poor, waiting for it to fill. Platters of bread, bagged h2o, biscuts, candy, fake jewelry, toothbrushes and past, blinking lights, sweat towels, fan Ice and shower scrubbies float past my face. The only 3 white people around, Shane, Lolo, and I, wait and watch. I speak in Twi to the venders who ...