Race Relations
This is an extremely fascinating topic to me because things seem so relatively smooth here. As far as I can tell, no one hates or resents white ppl, maybe because black ppl
own everything & have all the power.
Plus, the white ppl here are almost all volunteers or other aid workers, so it's hard to resent them.Ghana was also the 1st country to win their Independence in 1957, with a completely sweeeeet transition to power. Kwame Nekrumah won the election outright, so the British knew they couldn't hang on any longer.
He lost favor by flirting with socialism too much & that pissed off the military. Naturally they didn't want to lose their power or lucrative contracts. I imagine the Church wasn't thrilled either, to have a socialist / atheist president. But it is fascinating how quickly he was deposed...1966, I believe, less than 1O yrs. But revolutions often devour their young fairly quickly.
I think there also wasn't a land grab here, a la Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia, with the violence & death. Probably like Jacobo Kenyatta, who made friends with the white power base, they made sure there was no violent upheaval.
As far as inter-racial couples go, it also isn't a problem. You don't see it all the time, but no one resents it at all.
It's not all sunshine & roses, though. They did have a coup d'etat, when Rawlings took over, but compared with the other African countries, when whoever has the most guns wins, this is mild by comparison. But there were food shortages to be sure, and even as previously mentioned in my.Rawlngs post, a nationwide curfew of 6 pm. I have heard, though I don't believe this, that it was to prevent street crime from happening..
So whatever Ghana's secret is, please share it with your neighbors, who are suffering!
own everything & have all the power.
Plus, the white ppl here are almost all volunteers or other aid workers, so it's hard to resent them.Ghana was also the 1st country to win their Independence in 1957, with a completely sweeeeet transition to power. Kwame Nekrumah won the election outright, so the British knew they couldn't hang on any longer.
He lost favor by flirting with socialism too much & that pissed off the military. Naturally they didn't want to lose their power or lucrative contracts. I imagine the Church wasn't thrilled either, to have a socialist / atheist president. But it is fascinating how quickly he was deposed...1966, I believe, less than 1O yrs. But revolutions often devour their young fairly quickly.
I think there also wasn't a land grab here, a la Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia, with the violence & death. Probably like Jacobo Kenyatta, who made friends with the white power base, they made sure there was no violent upheaval.
As far as inter-racial couples go, it also isn't a problem. You don't see it all the time, but no one resents it at all.
It's not all sunshine & roses, though. They did have a coup d'etat, when Rawlings took over, but compared with the other African countries, when whoever has the most guns wins, this is mild by comparison. But there were food shortages to be sure, and even as previously mentioned in my.Rawlngs post, a nationwide curfew of 6 pm. I have heard, though I don't believe this, that it was to prevent street crime from happening..
So whatever Ghana's secret is, please share it with your neighbors, who are suffering!
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