By Jacob Wheeler Sun International Correspondent ACCRA, Ghana: March 17, 2002 — A cool breeze blowing off the Southern Atlantic is a relief this morning, as are the usual cast of characters hunkering on the porch at the Hotel de California in Adabraka..Same terminally drunk German man, Herr Schmidt, sleeping on the sofa in the […]

By Jacob Wheeler Sun contributor ACCRA, Ghana – Amid wet sheets hanging from clotheslines and scrawny chickens running about, the budding star of the Akotoku boxing club is not difficult to spot. Kpakpo Allotey, nicknamed “Lightning” by the local children who adore him, takes one jab after another at the hot and humid sub-Saharan African […]