Tonight Nana called me over to him and told me how he's been with another woman and had a 1 and a half year old son. He'd been battling with the baby's grandparents (the mother doesn't want to keep the child) for custody. I thought it was odd, but he asked me (not his wife) to come with him to pick up the baby since everything was finally resolved with custody issues. Nana had went on at some length how the baby would be so much better off at the orphanage. But, I don't agree. The grandparent's house is really nice and they have ACTUAL furniture and live in a less isolated city. The grandfather talked to me for a while about how he felt he was plenty capable of taking care of Acusi (the baby). He and Nana got in an argument and both kept asking me to agree with their side of the argument. It was rather uncomfortable.
The mother of the child came with us in the taxi back to the orphanage. She walked up to the house and Margaret stood there and didn't seem to care that her husband's former mistress was there. Katja says it's considered acceptable in Ghana for men to be with women other than their wives.
Laundry
