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Infact according to USAID - ECG has merely 1.8M customers. This laughable compared to kenya power with 8m customers.

  Established in 1963, ECG supplies electricity to six regions in southern Ghana(link is external). The utility serves over 1.8 million customers and employs over 6,000 people, of which 25 percent are women. Recognizing that diverse teams build better businesses, ECG is partnering with USAID to increase gender equality across the company and encourage more women to enter Ghana’s energy sector.

South Africa doesnt even have 18 million meters. Ghana total household is 8.3m - total structures 9.5m. ECG customers are about 3M. Total if we include Northern one is less than 4m.

Just30:
Electricity access in Ghana is defined as someone having electricity electricity by being directly connected to the grid and that is why ECG has sold over 18 million electricity meters and there are 10.8 million homes in Ghana.

IMF do not collect any data. Development should be visible with naked eyes. It cannot be hidden in figures. Figures and data are suppose to explain what the naked eye can see. You can tell when economy is doing great....without being an economist.

Ghana engages in cooking data - as part of it's democratic experiment - it appears every gov comes in cook data - looks good - and exit. Meanwhile Ghana continues to look like a cattle kraal.

I have examined electricity access and water acess - and I found it way below what is stated. The reason is simple. You can ask all your electricity companies to provide you with list of their customers. If it doesnt equal to about 8m - that is 100 percent of Ghana household - based on census of 32 million divided 4 people per household...then you got a problem.

And what is the problem - cooking of data - electricity access in kenya is defined as someone having electricity right in their house - in Ghana it's a community - if you live near electricity pole - you're said to have access - because theoritically you can apply and pay for it - but you havent.

vaxx:
if I show you a richer Accra will you still not doubt the serenity and claim a poorer Tanzania is better.

Ghana is not a home where data are cooked. We have be friends to imf for a long time. But how can I know the number of school children in Tz against the drop out ? Will picture or video give me such figure? How can I know electricity access ratio, water access ratio, etc. Will picture give me those aforementioned.

mtisTheQubit:
Ok the guy who uploaded that video wasnt fair to them..for real Accra there looks like a Kraal

most we African cities look like that...like majengos.The roads look great but city looks terrible.They should at least plant trees.

jl115:
dude stay in your lane before I decide to e whip you again if SGR is so much better than why does the worlds most efficient rail system still use mostly NGR?

There is a reason why everyone is moving to SGR...

mtisTheQubit:
Ok, everywhere I look, it appears to be a ghetto. Is this all Ghana has to offer? Trully, I never thought of Accra in this way...

It appears to be an informal city designed by a dude high on something...

it's crazy..it's sprawling slumpolis

Herbal medicine is not withcraft you Ghana witch

Every Africa community had customary law. Undeveloped. Common or English Law is the main jurisprudence in Kenya and Ghana. Now go back to wikipedia and bring back more nonsense. I think this one is dead.

Just30:
You can ask your European masters what jurisdiction they came to meet ... They didn't meet a primitive society like in Kenya...

They came to meet a well laid down juris practice that was more democratic than they could imagine...

I will say, Ghana's jurisprudence is probably 60:40 though we practice infused common law

Precisely. It copy-paste of 1st world issues in 3rd world country that should be more worried on sewage system and cholera. It's very unlikely ghanian will want gay sex with running stomach.

It's almost begging for serious spanking from 1st world country. Ghana itself will end be sodomized by rich nations - deeper to poverty.

gallivant:
I don't think anyone is forcing homosexuality on any nation. It's always been there and there were no issue. The problem comes when a government start picking on gays instead of taking practical steps to end poverty and unemployment!! I will repeat what Uhuru told some silly journalist from CNN, " At the moment gays and homosexuality is not an issue in Africa".

Ghana is common law. That is 95 or 98 percent of your jurisprudence. Anything else if fat lie.

I doubt you have developed any good local jurisprudence considering your still primitive and you lost 40yrs in military.

Just30:
sorry, in Ghana, we don't just copy blindly.. we adapt it to our customs and traditions to make it more local to our society..
This is why we have succeeded largely...


Now that you know that laws are base on society, you can also learn where the criminal code comes from....

Then you will learn how there is no universality

HIV-AIDS being a day disease is so 1980s. Concentrate on circumscizing the 10 percent that dont. The risk of spreading HIV from anal sex and from uncircumscized straight sex is almost similar. How many Ghanians are gay - maybe 0.5 percent - and you're risking global outrage.

If truly hiv-aids fight - go for more than a million ghanians who do not circumsize - according to the stats.

vaxx:
I said you guys are not independent thinker, you just ask the same question again, the same question that can be found on popular internet from pro gay defender . Even larry ask the Ghana MP this lame question. The correct and scientific answer to this is. There is a factual evidence in Ghana that HIV are common among gays than the straight guys and it is causing the nation about 200 million in purchasing of subside drugs to cater for people living with this sickness ( such amount will have been piloted on important infrastructure assuming we don't have such a mess here . So to save our nation of this continious expenditure, we would have to reduce the spread of the virus which is known to common among gays than straight guys .

And again to your assertion about Dubai and Qatar.The whole 5 rich gulf state will never adopt it and clearly the West understand where they can exercised their power . Saudi arabia and uae citizens run UK economy ( their expensive estate like kensington and Chelsea are full of Arab millionaire, even their own english citizens can't afford it) so they know their limit of bullshit.

Let me help you. Kenya and Ghana like most British colonies jurisprudence is mostly greco-roman law. This the common law. That is the wider jurisprudence. Ghana has developed it's own jurisprudence of course. In cases - in say specific area - arguments will be backed by quoting or referencing other cases..either in Ghana or in commonwealth...that is basically jurisprudence.

It very unlikely to hear a Ghana lawyer referencing a case from French speaking Benin or China or even USA - because it's a different jurisprudence.

It easy for Ghana lawyer to move to Kenya and vice-versa - because it's mostly the same jurisprudence. It based on common law. This laws and arguments that developed in Englad in middle ages...and have become precedents or good law.

Just30:
In teaching, you just have to used facts before some kid starts throwing tantrums ....

I don't want to hear anymore Kenyan tantrum.... If you are smart enough, try arguing the facts....

Quoting what I already know vividly is what you deserve.

People do not choose to be LGBT+ or to be transgender. Did South Africa's Semenya choose to have more testestorone and have feelings for women?

vaxx:
I am a pragmatic thinker, provide evidence for this .

A universal right is based on the assumption of having equal right regardless of gender, religion or ethnicity. Which means in every condition my persived acceptance right should be equal to my fellow human.

Therefore a certain character I choose which my society persived to be abnormal is not right on them as it is not a demand on my society to accommodate me in such a manner as to make me feel better about myself or more welcome in difficult situations -- that is my personal responsibility.

Ghana is not obliged to hold LGBT individual own headache. We don't want it simple.

Lol stop googling study. Analytic jurisprudence .

Just30:
from your write up, you know nothing about law..

Untill you learn how to answer questions, you will keep being an illiterate

The most important questions of analytic jurisprudence are: "What are laws?"; What is the law? What is the relationship between law and power/sociology? and What is the relationship between law and morality? Legal positivism is the dominant theory, although there is a growing number of critics who offer their own interpretations.


Historicists believe that law originates with society.

Do you even know what this means?

Nobody admire China dictatorship and related retrogression - but we admire their infrastructure and development. Not everything is mutually exclusive. We admire US democracy and personal freedom. We admire Kagame progressive fixing of Kigali but we hate his murderous dictatorship.

Appisko:
Idi0t it's China not progressing?

Is LGBT+ Legal over there stupid chaagaa infested brain

Nice - KQ all female crew led by iconic Irene Koki Mutungi- the first female on the African continent to become certified as a Captain of the Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" aircraft


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGMkrwJThI

obaaderemi:
When men begin to talk about skin tones, I shudder.
African man, love your skin.

I say love knowledge.You cannot love it when bible and everyone makes it appears like some Jewish bibical curse.Its important to know why youR skin is dark ...it not beauty..it's functional..to either get more sunlight or prevent too much sunlight.if you must bleach don't stay near hot blazing African sun...you not willinly escape with minor issues

Justnotyou:
Congolese are mostly Bantu except for the few Nilo-saharans in the east. Pic 1

Linguistically Pic2 they're practically cousins & genetically the Igbo & Yoruba are indistinguishable on many runs including those from commercial dna testing sites except the igbos tend to have less than 3% Congolese on average which is negligible. Pic 3

Yes any drastic shift >10% in their diversity tends to be from fairly recent.

Genetically Yoruba,igbo and Bantus are similar..any small difference apart from admixtures is whether they settled in forest or savannah

AskiaHarem:
No the majority of Africans are medium to dark brown there are very few "black" skinned people on this Earth with the exception being some Nilotis and aboriginal islanders south of India. Both being minorities on there perspective continents.

1. South Sudanese
2. Yoruba West African(Old Photo)
3. South African Zulu
4. Ethiopians

you only see skin color but you don't see big difference in height, nose, face etc.Africa is most diverse contintent..but still you can tell this is guy look like igbo...this look youruba..

Abohboy:
Lighter in Congo? Have you seen Lukaku? Benteke? Infact forget them have you seen TP Mazembe? Have you seen the president of Congo? All very very dark skinned and even a lot of Igbos are dark skinned they're not all light skinned as you've wrongly claimed

Typically Nigerian with worse education...Congo is huge..eastern congo is Bantus..

Justnotyou:
Discussing Anthropology is a good thing. For people interested in going further in depth they can access their dna profiles from a number of reputable commercial dna test sites.

As for the phenotype, it's already being discussed at length, though I will only add that the Igbo are a little more brown on average compared to their yoruba counterparts, not light skin.

Phenotype doesn't really explain the genotype or linguistic classifications of the many ethnicities we have.

Linguistically Yoruba, Igbo & bantoids are Benue-Congo. The largest branch of the Niger-Congo phylum. (pic1)

Phenotypically the Bantoid show a large number of varied phenotypes due to their spread, adaptation & absorption of other communities compared to the Igbo & Yoruba. (Pic2)

Genetically the Bantoid are yet again further subdivided into several groups while both yoruba & igbos are predominantly west African Niger-Congo without much admixture from other communities. (Pic3)

linguistic DNA igbo are closer to Yoruba than congo who are close to Bantus..but genetically they are the same.. meaning any diversity is recent

mtisTheQubit:
No bro..congolese are dark..dudes even breach...

Bythe way majority of igbos are not that light..

igbo family

we are talking sheds of grey...it's like Kenya..kamba are light skin but there many darker.Most Nigeria and Congolese bleach.But even if they didn't..they are not darker like South Sudan or even Kenya. obviously in respect of world eyes we ate dark.You can change skin color but what about your nose, mouth, head..so anybody bleaching is endangering himself for nothing..African black man is black man.Love yourself.There is reason you look like that..it climatic advantage to survive

There all sort of mixed people...but majority is what takes precedence. Maasai for example are more Ethiopid than Nilotic. Luo of kenya are half nilotic. Not as pure nilotic as south sudanase.

Anyway talking of colour

West Africa shores - from Senegal is darker - then get less darker - util it gets to East Nigeria - it starts to get lighter all the way to Congo and Angola.Then it starts to darken again in most of East and Southern Africa - apart from South Africa when it lighten dramatically due to Khoisans.The same if you start from south sudan - the darkness start reducing as you move out - further north - east - and west.

Most of this is purely Africa adaption to climate.

Igbos uses their slightly light skin to claim jewish descende - very laughbale. It adaptation to live in humid tropical forest of central africa.

mtisTheQubit:
True .
Bythe way there is also alot of mix btw western Kenya Bantus and Nilotes(luos).
Some eastern Bantus with Cushites and central Bantus with Nilotes-maasais

More like the 50 shades of grey.

mtisTheQubit:
True..but let's just agree most Africans are dark..black..

There are admxiture everywhere - but everyone knows yoruba is yoruba - and igbo is igbo - because they are different people. Slightly different from say a Khoisan. You know a zulu - is different from Xhosa. You know Malawian-Zambia-Zimbwabwe are near similar - they have bantu looks - without Khoisan admxiture your find in South Africa. You know Angola-Congole-Camereuon - Igbo - are similar - these are mostly brown bantu/yoruba people that are a little hairy - because they lived in forests.

I am talking typical igbo....is more fairer skin than Yoruba...and more hairy than Yoruba. When you see a dark tall person - you know it a sudanase -or a kenyan even. You know a Tutsi is different from Hutu. You know forest pgymy like Batwa is different from Bantu.

Yoruba to me is closer to Ghanian than to Igbo. Igbo is closer to a congelese or Camerounian.

Abohboy:
This is such cap my dad is Igbo, his grandmother is Igbo, his grandmother is Igbo and they're all as black as Yoruba people often are even Nigerian politicians that are Igbo can still be dark in complexion there's no singular characteristic of an Igbo or even a Yoruba my mom is Yoruba but she's lightskinned naturally like the Igbos are apparently supposed to be according to you, it just varies stop trying to divide these people

Kenya is mostly nilotic - the darkest people in world - even the Bantus in Kenya have some Nilotic blood.

There is nothing racist in how people LOOK - appear - these are just common features you can see with naked eye.

Yoruba (sudanic)- are adapted to tropical humid savannah - too much sun - darker skin
Igbo (congoid) - are adapted to triphical humid forest climate..not too much sun --fairer skin - too much cold - hairy body
Nilotes like kenya (Nilotid) - are darker to protect from sun - adapted to swamps and open savannahs
Bantus (Bantuid)- like Yoruba also live in savannah but they branched off congoid recently

Ethiopid - Is an old adaptation when savvannah was wet and forested - hausa/fulanis/berger/ethiopians/somalis

That is tropic - people who live in cold temperate climate - like whites - will become fairer skin and very hairy - more prounced than igbos - of course with different adaptation on different parts of body - like long efficient nose to deal with less oxygen - compared to say someone in congo - with all the oxygen.

How people appear is just human adaptation or evolution to their climate. All humans are equal.

theInterpreter:
you guys are just repeating racist exaggerated information

Yoruba are darker than Igbo but lighter than most Kenyans

simple

http://humanphenotypes.net/map/map.html
Yoruba - all the way to Senegal - phenotypical (by appearance) - Sudanic (not to be confused with nilolitic)
Igbos - all the way to most of central africa - are Congoid.
Bantus - are bantuid - east and south africa.
Northern West Africa - Fulanis/Hausa - are Ethiopid.
Nilotes - like Dinga/Luos - Nilotic

Yoruba - all the way to Ghana - to Senegal - in apperance

Skull long and high, nose very wide and rather low-rooted, lips bulging, chin small, forehead steep, face large, hair kinky, legs long, and body muscular. In contrast to Bantuids of the southern savannahs, features are more pronounced, skulls higher, and legs longer. Represents an adaption to humid savannah climate

Igbo - all the way to Congo

Widespread Central African type, typical for the agricultural forest populations. Compared to savannah types (Sudanids, Bantuids) legs are shorter with big calves, stature lower and more thickset, faces broader, skin fairer, body hair stronger, and nasal root more depressed.
This adaptation for trophica humid climate...has nothing to do with Igbos coming from Jews...it very similar appearance in many cameroun/congolese

Igbo look like a Congolese. Yoruba look like a Ghanian.

Bantus - are different - it like a mixed congoid and sudaind - as it adapted from central africa tropics to savannah.

Widespread type, native to the savannah regions of the southern African hemisphere. Skulls tend to be long and low, noses wide, lips full, chin small, forehead high, facial features robust, and hair kinky. In contrast to the Sudanids of the northern savannahs, the typical Sub-Saharan features are less pronounced, but more bulbous and fleshy, brow ridges stronger, skulls lower, and legs shorter.

mtisTheQubit:
i really dont get you...I described what i saw..

1..Igbos somehow look like bantus
2.Yorubas are darker than Igbos
3.Nilotes are dark..

an basically what you posted supports my observation bro..i dont need to go online an scavenge for data..am the source ...

Yes an i know not everyone in West Africa is dark .same applies to east or south africa..
An lastly whether dark or light all ths are Africans...To a white guys they all darkies...

Seeing how your companies are running back home - I think kenya companies should not be afraid to come down to Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbwabwe. It may be a little tough to crack the SACUs - coz of much higher standards of good - but definitely in stuff like Avacados - or Tea or Coffee or Horticulture - where were are globally competitive - why not?

AfriqueDuZuid:
You can't come to the south where South Africa control the trade.

Africa free trade will benefit mostly big players

25 percent is small. Kenya in 70s and 80s use to spend 40 percent of it's budget on education - it was the world highest. Then IMF came with rubbish about SAP - and forced Kenya to severly cut back on social investment - and 1990s as you know became a lost decade. Then we restarted again free primary in 2003 - 25 percent was in 2005 - and it been dropping to now I think less than 20 percent - roughly 17-18 percent - as nonsensical expenditure on military and prov administration increase annually (it now almost equal education budget).

This explain kenya historically high quality education - other Africans were spending on military - to kill mostly their own citizens in coups and counter-coups.

He notes that fortunately that has not happened in
Kenya which spent at most 11.9, and 14.2 per cent on administration
and defence, respectively for the period of his study of 1964/65 to
1972/73. He, however notes that education is taking an
increasingly bigger share than any other sector. At most, 37 per
cent were spent on education and 17.9 per cent on economic
services.
http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/63800/Nyahongo_Government%20revenues%20and%20expenditures%20in%20Kenya%20With%20emphasis%20on%20trends%20and%20compositions.pdf?sequence=2

kikuyu1:
Goodness! Where? What year exactly?

Kazikazi:
I think the main problem is the lack of local industries or having too small industries. The same thing is happening in Luanda. Luanda have been the most expensive city in Africa for ages,and to be honest,Luanda imports almost everything.

definitely coz if currency keep depreciating against USD then you have to ask for large markup.. negative feedback loop that keep inflation rising.Its probably better to dollarize the economy . Hyperinflation is nasty thing to fix...coz you need to somehow fix the negative loop by building trust in local currency

popizaino:
Accra is the most expensive city in sub-Saharan Africa country as confirmed by a friend who was here in August and has visited every African country except the north African countries,Senegal and Mozambique. One very cook example of how you know the country is expensive is on the issue of cooking gas,12kg of cooking gas in Abidjan is like 52ghc and the same kg goes for more than 100ghc in Ghana.
The problem of prices sterm from Culture and lack of government policy on price control. The culture in the sense that an average Ghanaian doesn't want to bargain so as not to come off as been cheap or poor,so he/she rather get the product at the first asking price.

I think the general greedy nature of an average Ghanaian traders also contributes to why the city is so expensive. I have an in law who import lady shoes and bags from Turkey and china and she supplies retailers around UTC and kingsway, and to my greatest surprise she told she makes like 5ghc on each shoe she supplies to her customers and they in turn make about 50ghc or more on each shoes.

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I think it same problem facing any country with history of hyperinflation.. Argentina, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Ghana..Its hard to trust cedis..it depreciate rapidly every year.. Ghana redominated about 10yrs but it has depreciated 600%...if you're selling you gotta factor future inflation..by time you're done..Kumasi I think does wholesale trading so things move faster

mtisTheQubit:
The Real Ghana
Guys ths peeps even got market for human parts..scary eeh..just listen to the drive..

An now i understand Ghana..you folks just mix eveything..you merge slums with your cbd..whats that..No zoning or what ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqyVn04L-A

Savages eat cats,dogs and rats.. imagine a country where a cane rat is a national delicacy