500 to 600m away from the sea. Between 500-600m away from the sea before I build the house. But the sea approached steadily, steadily. Starting about five years back, everything got swept.

You see the ground here, you see that ground, can you see further? They were protecting the sea from Keta side. That wall, and when the previous government came, they refused to continue, that was the last point of the ground. And it destroyed all these places. It’s going to Togo. They are also Ewe. You know of history of the area. 

I don’t have a house anymore.

Chief Fisherman in Salakope, Ghana I (short)

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