Introduction:
September 21, was Ghana's Founders day, which is the same day as Ghana's first President's Birthday, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Earlier that week I heard it briefly mentioned on NPR. I had known for a long time that one of the members of the production team at work was from Ghana, so I wished him a happy Founder's day, but I was surprised to learn that he had no idea what I was talking about. At first I thought: "This must not be a widely celebrated holiday". He gave the dates of their Independence Day and a few other holidays, but didn't know of that one.
As it turned out, Ghana had made it a National holiday in 2012, well after he had already moved to the United States.
When I first met him, I questioned him about his home life. He told me the most difficult part about coming to the U.S. was all the new laws that he didn't quite understand. For example, when he first got here he didn't realize that you couldn't just park anywhere. Here their where parking lots and no parking zones, and if you parked in a no parking zone you got a ticket. He clearly had been distressed about this.
I asked him about the languages spoken in his home land. He gave me a long list of languages and told me several of them were related to each other and several of them were not. The official language that is spoken there is English, however there are at least 10 African languages spoken by people a variety of peoples from different regional ethnic origins.
Economy:
Ghana has a wide range of ways to make money. Recently, oil was discovered there. In addition to this, they also attract people from other African countries to attend their schools. A majority of people, though make their living in agriculture. One of their main products being cocoa:
Ghana is the second largest producer of Cocoa. Recently there has been some controversy about cocoa farming in the region. One video claimed that it was being smuggled out through the Ivory Coast. There are also current allegations that many Ghanaian farmers use child labor in their cocoa production.
Work Cited:
"Ghana". Wikipedia. Retrieved: September 23, 2014.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana"
"New Reform Congregation". Ghana News Agency. September 21, 2012. Retrieved: September 21, 2014. Website:
http://ghananewsagency.org/politics/founders-day-to-be-placed-on-ghana-s-holiday-calendar-49505
September 21, was Ghana's Founders day, which is the same day as Ghana's first President's Birthday, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Earlier that week I heard it briefly mentioned on NPR. I had known for a long time that one of the members of the production team at work was from Ghana, so I wished him a happy Founder's day, but I was surprised to learn that he had no idea what I was talking about. At first I thought: "This must not be a widely celebrated holiday". He gave the dates of their Independence Day and a few other holidays, but didn't know of that one. As it turned out, Ghana had made it a National holiday in 2012, well after he had already moved to the United States.
When I first met him, I questioned him about his home life. He told me the most difficult part about coming to the U.S. was all the new laws that he didn't quite understand. For example, when he first got here he didn't realize that you couldn't just park anywhere. Here their where parking lots and no parking zones, and if you parked in a no parking zone you got a ticket. He clearly had been distressed about this.
I asked him about the languages spoken in his home land. He gave me a long list of languages and told me several of them were related to each other and several of them were not. The official language that is spoken there is English, however there are at least 10 African languages spoken by people a variety of peoples from different regional ethnic origins.
Economy:
Ghana has a wide range of ways to make money. Recently, oil was discovered there. In addition to this, they also attract people from other African countries to attend their schools. A majority of people, though make their living in agriculture. One of their main products being cocoa:
Ghana is the second largest producer of Cocoa. Recently there has been some controversy about cocoa farming in the region. One video claimed that it was being smuggled out through the Ivory Coast. There are also current allegations that many Ghanaian farmers use child labor in their cocoa production.
Work Cited:
"Ghana". Wikipedia. Retrieved: September 23, 2014.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana"
"New Reform Congregation". Ghana News Agency. September 21, 2012. Retrieved: September 21, 2014. Website:
http://ghananewsagency.org/politics/founders-day-to-be-placed-on-ghana-s-holiday-calendar-49505
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