Africa is such an extraordinary continent and it has, equal to the enormous range of diversity and habitats, a very special unique sound all of its own, deeply rich and resplendent, full of personality and variation. I’ve been super fortunate and work has taken me to some pretty special and vivid places across Africa, one of the places I most enjoy visiting is the gorgeous funny and brilliant country of Ghana. I’ve been several times and seen over a period of a decade (and a bit) an enormous amount of change in this country, as its expands and grows. The last time I was there we were filming in a small town called Juaboso in the remote Western Province. We had been filming through the morning at a small hospital where a group of local surgeons were performing the most astonishing eye surgery on locals who suffering from cataract, effectively giving people back their sight. We took a break in the midday heat, I wandered the short distance to the main road and recorded the sounds of the market stall holders, the people running the varied kiosks, the sound of people walking past me in conversation and joking and laughing, the mother berating the child, the sound of motor cars and motor bikes, the blaring radios, cooing pidgeons. Wonderful.