Amazon.com description: Product Description: Flesh-burrowing tumbu fly larvae; fetish potions; lynchings; polygamy; and an ardent belief in juju magic and witchcraft...welcome to West Africa.Anne leaves behind the grey skies of London to move to glorious sub-Saharan Ghana with her diplomat husband. Her adventures take her the breadth and length of the country, sampling all it has to offer--from coffins carved in the shape of airplanes and cola-bottles, to an audience with the King of Yendi, later massacred by a rival clan.Businesses may sport Christianity-embracing names such as Seek Christ Plumbing Works and The Holy Trinity Marmalade Factory, but Anne soon discovers that ancient superstitions and tribal violence lie not far beneath. Moreover, political and social unrest are close at hand as long-standing leader J.J. Rawlings is ousted from power, ushering in a new era of hope and expectation under President Kufuor.Ghana is dusty and lush, stifling and liberating, enchantingly charming and brutally unforgiving. To know the place, you need to get down and dirty with it. As the Ghanaians would say, Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.