I have plenty of problems with that article and it has nothing to do with someone's skin colour.
Those who visit Ghana do exactly just that - visit.
Be it for ecotourism or some kind of transcendent experience outside of their everyday lives they visit with the best of intentions and leave with happy memories - nothing wrong with that but the glaring inequalities which they will not only overlook for not being able to see them but not be informed of are massive.
Genetically modified crops which have to be purchased from the government, terrible infrastructure which doesn't benefit citizens well, corrupt police, redirected funds for politicians, theft of goods at ports, poor healthcare, expensive excursions which locals can't partake in with underpaid staff who beg for food manning those locations, ridiculously slow bureaucracy which punches down on its people, death by vehicular incidents and a whole load more are things which you are not likely to see on your two week vacation away from your role as a Jamaican/Canadian oversized clothing tailor role.
Africans don't see African Americans outside of South Africa - they see Americans and rightly so!
South Africa has broader rivers and more amenable terrain which allowed for a more developed civilisation to establish itself there earlier and with more resources for the wellbeing of those who lived there.
This, of course, led to what would be known as a racist territory based on the apartheid laws and has only seen things alter in the past few decades but due to the vast number of non-black people living there African Americans are generally viewed as fellow blacks unlike elsewhere on the sub-Saharan area of the continent where they are just other people and their skin colour is of no importance but rather where they came from and how useful they may be financially.
It's a great continent with lots of history but be careful who regales it to you as it may be tainted with bias and misleading information - particularly from non-Africans.
I have plenty of problems with that article and it has nothing to do with someone's skin colour.
Those who visit Ghana do exactly just that - visit.
Be it for ecotourism or some kind of transcendent experience outside of their everyday lives they visit with the best of intentions and leave with happy memories - nothing wrong with that but the glaring inequalities which they will not only overlook for not being able to see them but not be informed of are massive.
Genetically modified crops which have to be purchased from the government, terrible infrastructure which doesn't benefit citizens well, corrupt police, redirected funds for politicians, theft of goods at ports, poor healthcare, expensive excursions which locals can't partake in with underpaid staff who beg for food manning those locations, ridiculously slow bureaucracy which punches down on its people, death by vehicular incidents and a whole load more are things which you are not likely to see on your two week vacation away from your role as a Jamaican/Canadian oversized clothing tailor role.
Africans don't see African Americans outside of South Africa - they see Americans and rightly so!
South Africa has broader rivers and more amenable terrain which allowed for a more developed civilisation to establish itself there earlier and with more resources for the wellbeing of those who lived there.
This, of course, led to what would be known as a racist territory based on the apartheid laws and has only seen things alter in the past few decades but due to the vast number of non-black people living there African Americans are generally viewed as fellow blacks unlike elsewhere on the sub-Saharan area of the continent where they are just other people and their skin colour is of no importance but rather where they came from and how useful they may be financially.
It's a great continent with lots of history but be careful who regales it to you as it may be tainted with bias and misleading information - particularly from non-Africans.
not having a written language until whites made it for them 200 years ago prevented growth