Flooding in Accra: Over 30 Years of Doing Nothing

In July 1995, I was a student at the University of Ghana. One of my course mates and personal friend lived at Odawna, Adabraka (not too far from the Odaw ‘river’). I remember it was a vacation but I was still on campus as I didn’t want to travel back to my home town in the Ashanti Region during that vacation. Long story short, that was the first time I recall Accra faced a serious flooding since I had been living in the city.

By Isaac Yeboah