Views of Empire: A View from Ghana [audio 15min]

In a series examining the colonial experience from the receiving end, the Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes illustrates some of the absurdities of Empire: his grandmother can still dance an Irish jig and his father recited"Mary Had a Little Lamb" without having any concept of snow. Nii searches out The History of the Gold Coast and Asante, by the native Rev Carl Christian Reindorf, published in 1895.