Despite long layovers and lost luggage, we managed to catch up with Ms. Ryan in the early evening at Ktoka International Airport. Ms. Ryan was on one of her monthly visits to meet different Novica artists around the world. We had an overlap of about an hour.
Airport dining here bears no resemblance to the stale atmosphere at American or European airports.
The menu offered both Chinese fare and local spicy jolluf rice and fufu, the quintessential Ghanaian dish made by using tall tree trunks to pound yams into pasty submission. A Nigerian reggae beat pulsed over a loudspeaker, which also announced flights leaving for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ms. Ryan and Mr. Kyeremeh introduced us to three other Novica employees and two artists. The eight of us pushed a couple of tables together and poked foot-long straws into bottles of pineapple juice. Typically, we ply our Bait and Switch dinner companions with booze, but we quickly learned that the Novica crew was high on another kind of spirit.