Saturday, November 20, 2010

Things Ghana does NOT have

(at least, not much/surprisingly little of.)

Note: This post is more informative in conjunction with the "Things Ghana Has" post.

Postcards
Religious strife
Atheists
Jobs
Visible crime/violence
Local premium chocolate brands (despite the massive cocoa farming industry)
Consistent running water in residential areas
Daylight savings
Strong distinctions between nuclear and extended family
Precise usage of the words "cousin", "uncle", etc
Very many purely-European-blood descendants of the first few hundred years worth of colonists
(most of them didn't bring their wives here. The only other white people I've seen while in Ghana have fairly clearly been tourists/expats.)
Rainforest (the wide belt of previous rainforest has been largely deforested)
Beggars
Street dogs (compared to other developing countries I've been in)
Visible drug abuse
Housing (ie, there isn't nearly enough of it)
Recycling
Readily understandable English
Cold
Good public transportation
Good urban planning
Mosquitoes (at least, during the winter/dry season, which is what it is now)
Reliable use of gendered pronouns such as "he", "she", "his", "theirs", etc

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