Accra

Accra meets the Atlantic along a low, wide coast, and the city runs on the noise of it — Highlife spilling out of shopfronts, jollof over charcoal at the roadside, a market that negotiates in three languages before breakfast.

The Harmattan blows down off the Sahara around December and changes the air over the whole coast for weeks at a time. We do not average that away. The panel beside this page reports what it is doing today, and because the service connects through Casablanca, the board scores the connection too.