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anti-amerikkkans in Ghana: Has the ‘Year Of Return’ changed lives for better or worse?

Most excellent and informative interview for the state of our community affairs.

Ghanaian and Diasporas Integration Opportunities and Challenges.

My comments:

Necessary Rule of Engagement:

Love thy neighbor as thyself is the key to better Integration.

How can we start to become WE?

• How to prevent money stealing and greedy habits from vendors?

• How to prevent ignorance and Nieve diasporas disruptions?

• How can we find opportunities for both sides to coexist?

Needed Government and Leadership:

• New laws and rules need to be put in place to create better rules of engagement between Native and Diasporas.

• More integration information needs to be broadcast from Government social media communication channels

• Price gouging will not be permitted

• Create channels to report on bad actors from both sides

Diasporas point of view:

• See More opportunities in our adopted homeland

• See Less Opportunity in Western homeland

• See themselves more advantage due to money conversion rate

• More educated in the things of the Western world

• Has more unnatural and material wealth

• Has less natural and cultural wealth

• See Ghanaians as labor opportunity

• Looking for belonging, peace and community

• See themselves as lacking leadership in government

• Looking for less work to build wealth

• Looking for more work to make a living

• See Ghanaians as ignorant

• See themselves as Christians

• See themselves as seeker of African cultural heritage

Native Ghanaians point of view:

• See More Opportunities in Western adopted homeland

• See Less opportunity in native homeland

• See themselves as poor and struggling

• See themselves as not as rich but needing more.

• See themselves as Christians

• See themselves as less educated in the things of the Western world

• Has more natural and cultural wealth

• See Diasporas as money opportunity

• See Diasporas as ignorant

• See Diasporas as disrupting economic norms

• See Diasporas as disrupting educational norms

• Looking for material wealth

• See themselves as lacking leadership in government

• Looking for more work to build wealth

Ghana Tourism Authority remarks:

• Said expectations from both sides

• The prices of goods tripled

• This is the year of return, let’s milk it!

• He said prices are expected to go up at the Olympics

The reporter:

Black we may be, but our bank accounts are all not the same.

Professor:

Who is benefiting from this divided integration problem?

We are the ones that can solve the problem.

• What we do for ourselves depends on what we think of ourselves

• What we think of ourselves depends on what we know of ourselves

• What we know of ourselves depends on what we have been told about ourselves

Equal grounds:

• We haven’t been told very much about ourselves

• Diasporas have not been told much about themselves

• Ghanaians has not been told much about themselves and their history

Quote from Kwame Nkrumah

“I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me,”

I ask myself:

• How do we begin the steps to solve the problem?

• What are the steps needed for the journey?

How can we start to become WE?