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Ghana has changed!

Twelve years ago when I first walked on Ghana’s soil, life was happening at a much slower pace. We laughed with native Ghanaians over reassigning the meaning of GMT from Greenwich Mean Time to Ghana Maybe Time. However, that phrase no longer applies in so many places because Ghana is becoming more and more like fully developed countries. There are many more roads with four lanes, gas stations with convenience stores, watches with second hands, chop bars¹ with refrigerators, shopping malls with food courts, supermarkets selling TV dinners and wine from Australia. There are more cars on the road, more pollutants in the air, more sit-coms from the BBC, more housing developments and subdivisions with gates. It would usually take me three or four days to shed the American modus operandi and adopt a different pace. This time it seemed it wasn’t even a factor and people were often waiting for me. This change is not universally liked in Ghana!

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