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A game of "Spa"
(Ghana: Accra)

May 1995
Ghana: Accra: A game of "Spa"

Spa is a game Ghanaians play with great gusto on street corners, in bars, really anywhere that has a deck of cards and a place to sit. I never really figured out the rules, but basically it goes like this: People on one side slap down some cards. Then people on the other side slap down some cards. Then the people on the first side stand up and start yelling. Then the people on the other side stand up, knocking over their chairs and spilling their cards to the floor, and yell even louder. Then everyone laughs and a new group sits down to repeat the process. Sound like fun?


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