David, were you travelling on a South African passport? I'm curious if that helped you obtain the visa, as most Europeans are being refused.
Also, I wonder if those embassies that receive fewer tourists are more lax....i.e. the Ghana embassy in Ouga, Bamako, Cotonou, Lome etc is used to seeing lots of travellers turning up and asking for visas, so nowdays refuse. But I don't imagine anywhere near the same number of travellers goto the Ghana embassy in Monrovia/Freetown/Conakry etc, so they're more willing to bend the rules.
Just thinking out loud!
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