Wa-Tumu Trip! My Upper West Visit

Having spent the last week of January in the Upper East Region, it was now the turn of the Upper West.As the Passion Air aircraft descended into Wa Airport, what struck me was firstly the reflection of the aluminium roofing of the buildings, knowing aluminium to be a good conductor of heat, and secondly the greenness of Wa.

Until 1983, the whole of our northern land mass bordering Burkina Faso was one big region called Upper Region, with Bolgatanga as the capital.

In 1983 however, the Upper West Region was carved out of Upper Region with Wa as the new capital.

The other half of the Upper Region became the new Upper East Region with Bolgatanga still the capital.