Since plime is a community where news should be very important, I scanned a couple of articles from a local newspaper, just to give you-all a taste of life in Ghana.

Enjoy the colourful English that is sometimes used here:



Most of the story appears on the next page:


Another article follows a bit later, watch this space.

Here's some news from Tamale, a town in the north of Ghana, illustrating that some professions can be excercised just about anywhere...



You can see free enterprise and vigorous competition at work there..

Ouch.
That's Ghana hurt.

I learned a new food---kenkey. But what is shito? I need to know what flying witches eat.

Interesting differences in the price of services from the "whores".

I think I saw a similar headline on a supermarket tabloid here in Canada!

Interesting article, though; thanks so much for sharing!

Shito is a spicy, fishy, reddish sauce/paste, not for delicate palates like mine...

I detest kenkey, and also fufu. But I quite like red-red (bean stew with or without chicken flakes or chicken flakes) and I absolutely love kelewele (fried plantain, sweet and spicy).

The services from the ladies of the night are probably also too spicy for me, so the prices are not really an issue.

Note that the interesting difference in prices is mostly due to the difference between the old cedi and the new Ghana cedi (1 new cedi = 10,000 old ones, and 1 new cedi is worth about US$1.05).

I think the difference between the Kenkey and the whores is that they'll both make you sick, but you can throw up after eating the Kenkey and you'll feel better.

I presume you are not speaking from experience, unless... how did you get hold of kenkey over there?

So if we can hook the guy in the second article up, with the flying witch lady (who lands naked on sofas) the world will spin merrily on it's axis.

For those of you who might have thought that I live in a wild, underdeveloped and educated country, here is some news from today's Daily Graphic here in Ghana...



Come to think of it, a couple of my teachers back in South Africa, in the early seventies, could have done with some of this advice...

Teachers should follow the advice to shun excessive drinking .

When I was a high school freshman, we had a math teacher from the Sudan who was into pot. He would get so high (buying pot from students, no less), that he couldn't teach the class. He enlisted a couple of students to teach. A group of us complained and broke out into a separate study group. He punished us for our actions by giving us all 70 as a grade, when we had exam scores over 90 and 95. He got fired after one semester. That 70 grade dragged all our grade points down.

Any new and exciting stories from Ghana?

I love this thread!

Heh! I can see you're addicted now... I haven't got a paper version of a newspaper with me now, but you might find this electronic article interesting...

Don't expect a lenient lawcourt here! (BTW, GHc60 is about US$65.)

On the other hand, if you are caught mining gold illegally on somebody else's Mining Lease, you will (eventually) probably be chased away by the police (if the complainant company pays them), so that you can repeat the act elsewhere, on somebody else's Mining Lease.

More pics! More pics!

They don't kid around there.

You may have had the impression from my earlier posts here that I think this country (Ghana) is funny. Sometimes it is. Let me stress, though, that I like to,laugh WITH Ghanaians, and definitely not AT them... I have too much respect for them to do that.

And today I'm posting some news to show why I have respect for this nation:



Other countries on this continent (eg. Zimbabwe) could learn a thing or two from this example.

Time to bump this thread to the top again, and I've found an interesting article to do it with.

Pretty interesting, from a country where funerals are still a very big thing, and where traditional leaders and traditional culture still plays a large role.

Link goes to a secure login :(

Hmmm ... strange... let's do it differently...

Since the online access to this article was via a secure login, here are the contents copied-and-pasted:

"Lady Tamara Strikes, With Gun

By Thomas Fosu Jnr, Larteh-Akuapem

CONTROVERSIAL SHOWBIZ figure, Lady Tamara, who has metamorphosed into a businesswoman, on Sunday night stormed the ‘Akonedi’ shrine at Larteh-Akuapem in the Eastern Region with the help of some hired ‘machomen’ to collect the corpse of the chief fetish priestess of the shrine who died about five months ago.

She was alleged to have taken the corpse to an unknown destination.

Tamara, who was wielding a gun, supposedly fired a warning shot to ward off any opposition and also pave the way for the ‘machomen’ to break into the new ‘Akonedi’ palace just behind the old one at Asenase, where the embalmed corpse of the chief priestess had been kept under lock and key pending a befitting funeral for her between April 30 and May 2 this year.

Tamara’s unexpected ‘hollywood’ action at the ‘Akonedi’ palace which took place around 8.00pm, left many people in the area running helter skelter, with a few family members breaking bottles to resist. But she overpowered them and took the corpse.

Nana Okomfo Amma Agyeiwaa I, who became the chief priestess of the ‘Akonedi’ shrine in her teens and died at age 95 on November 12, 2007, had been of immense help to Tamara, the “Nkosuohemaa” of Larteh-Akuapem.

Tamara, also known as Nana Esi Okoree, was said to have adopted the chief priestess as her mother after being blessed by the deceased.

The priestess was said to have taken care of Tamara anytime she came to the country after her business trips abroad.

The family members of the chief priestess had said that Tamara wanted to undertake the funeral single-handedly against their wishes, which had created the current conflict.

A spokesperson of the family, Opanin Kwesi Adjei told DAILY GUIDE that “even though Tamara had expressed the desire to single-handedly do the funeral of our old lady, we told her that custom does not allow her to do that and that if she had any assistance she could give it to the family towards the organisation of a befitting funeral for the priestess.

“Tell the whole world that Tamara has come to steal a corpse that does not belong to her!”

According to the family spokesperson, Tamara who also hails from Larteh-Akwapim would always want to have her own way because of the fact that “she has money and can influence anybody”.

A source told DAILY GUIDE that Tamara had a close relationship with the chief priestess because of what she (priestess) had done for her in times of difficulty.

Tamara was said to have come for the priestess when she fell ill and sent her to her home in Accra where she invited special doctors to take care of her.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that Tamara took care of the chief priestess until she unfortunately passed away in November last year.

She then came to inform the family members and brought the body to Larteh where it was embalmed and kept at the palace because customarily, a festish priestess is not supposed to be kept at the mortuary when she dies.

Because of her importance and special role at the shrine, the body of the chief priestess was kept at the new ‘Akonedi’ palace under tight security.

According to the information, as soon as the chief priestess passed away, Tamara was said to have announced to the family that she would single-handedly do everything concerning the funeral and burial, but the family members objected to it because they thought Tamara was “going too far” since she was not a family member.

They therefore took custody of the corpse and fixed the funeral and burial for the ending of this month, until Tamara unexpectedly struck to take the corpse from where it was being kept.

Even though the family members did not know where the body had been taken to, rumours had it that Tamara had sent it to Accra.
The family members are in limbo as to whether the announced burial and funeral date would still hold.

Obituary posters had been pasted all over Larteh and other Akuapem towns, announcing April 30-May 2 as the funeral date for the late chief fetish priestess of the ‘Akonedi’.

Meanwhile the family members have refused to report the case to the Larteh police because they alleged that the police personnel there had also been ‘bought’ by Tamara and that when they report the incident to them, no action would be taken against her.

They have however reported the case to the chief of the town, Nana Asiedu Ababio III, who promised to help resolve the matter.
Several attempts by DAILY GUIDE to reach Tamara for her side of the story proved futile."