Plenty

A La Flèche rooster with glossy black plumage, a white earlobe and a red V-shaped comb in an ivory linen shirt with a stole of gold, green and red kente cloth over one shoulder, standing on a wooden bench beside a long table laid with covered clay pots, enamel dishes and a water jug in the sunlit courtyard of an old house in Accra, ochre and pale blue walls and a mango tree with fruit behind

Home for the Feast

Long ago, the story goes, hunger was hooted out of town here, and every August everyone comes home to make sure it stays out. He has come back for it in his best cloth, and there is a bowl already waiting at his place.

8 August 2026