PHOTO OF THE DAY: Suburbia, Ghanaian Style

I suppose this home (priced at US$99,995 in 2007) would be considered upper-middle-class or upper-class housing in Ghana. Tema is a city of 209,000 people located about 16 miles from the capital city of Accra, in southeastern Ghana.

With the opening of an artificial harbor in 1961, Tema developed from a small fishing village to Ghana's leading seaport and an industrial center. Most of the country's chief export, cacao, is shipped from Tema. The city has aluminum, refined petroleum, chemicals, food products, and building materials industries.

The pictured home is in Sakumono, originally a small fishing village which has rapidly become an upscale suburb of Tema (itself a de facto suburb of the Greater Accra area), as Tema and Accra increasingly become twin cities. Freddy Adu, the soccer player who played with Major League Soccer (USA) but now plays in Europe, is originally from Tema.