Ghana's New Tourism Scam Is Funerals; Ghana's Constant Use of Trauma Tourism Because It's Nothing Else to Offer Anyone

Thursday, 14 September 2023

By: TB Obwoge

Ghana made the call to use Black Americans to rebuild their tourism in 2019, calling all (African-Americans) to come home to Ghana, where they actively sold Africans into slavery. Akufo-Addo King scammer, created the 'Year of Return', where only 120 out of hand-picked wealthy, 200 Black Americans were chosen for citizenship. The 60 others were toyed with for over 2-years most asked for more money, it's 3-years later not sure if the others were even given theirs as of date.

A country where they refuse to actually teach about what happened to Africans who were sold off by them and other West African countries. As most Africans don't even seem to know that not all Africans ended up in places like the United States or Europe.

Once listening to a Ghanian make the claim prior to a Black Stars football match, that Brazil was going to enslave them. When I told him that Brazil has the second largest population of Blacks outside of Africa, with more than 51% were of African heritage. He of course didn't believe me, thinking of course Ghanians know best, I was greeted with a few insults. In Ghana I'm not the Black American they were aiming for.

Lighter Blacks are looked at as white people in Ghana, some have even claimed that Blacks from America aren't even real Blacks. This from a Ghanian I had given hundreds of dollars to in business to print my free tee shirts that I gave out to adults and children to promote gender-equality and children's rights.

He said this on a day I was there to pick up an order, I was exhausted and tired of the white woman and fatty, fat mommy and obolo calls as I walked from my home to his shop that day.

That was a normal day in my life living in Ghana, people would go as far to hang out the windows of their tro tro to scream fat mommy or white mommy. Because they're so polite, politest of Africa according to them. My Kenyans folks never did this, which made is such a culture shock to hear people say such rude things to a stranger.

When I told other Ghanians they always asked what was my offense, what had I done to make them call me these things. Of course in a country where there is no law enforcement readily available I didn't do anything but walk, it was cheaper.

Either way I had done my research, I emailed Ghana immigration several times, tried calling before I arrived and nothing. I wanted out of the US and having lived in Kenya I thought all this tourism good news thrown in my face it can't be all bad, can it? I was wrong.

I've written about it so often, everything is set-up in a way for corruption to work with ease. Unlike Kenya, there were too many ways for authorities and citizens to get over.

Now there is a new tourism scam to pull in the masses to Ghana, death. They're actually selling funeral tourism.

Ghana to boost tourism during funerals

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has hinted at leveraging the vast interest in funeral celebrations in Ghana, particularly in the Ashanti region, to promote the celebration as a new tourist attraction.

The plan will encompass creating food and beverage joints for the sale of local dishes as well as provide a mass transportation system to convey visitors or mourners to traditional sites as a side attraction of funeral rites.

Additionally, the Ministry is pursuing corporate and educational tourism to boost local and international arrivals and visits towards the attainment of the Ministry’s target of generating six billion dollars annually for national development.

The sector Minister, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, made this known in Kumasi at the opening of a capacity-building workshop for selected journalists.

The participating journalists were selected from the Ashanti, Bono, Bono East and anything regions constituting the Middle Zone of Ghana.

The training is the second in a series by the Ministry for Tourism, Arts and Culture to build the capacity of, and encourage the media to give much attention to the promotion of the tourism sub-sector of Ghana.

The participants were taken through, among other issues as who a tourist is, what goes into tourism data, revenue landscape as well as better telling the tourism story.

The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, said Ghana is taking after France and Spain as leaders in global tourism by targeting to attract more tourism from within and beyond Ghana.

According to him, aside from aiming to generate six billion dollars from one point-two million tourism visitors annually, the ministry seeks to create more employment, for which various innovative and creative strategies are being developed including leveraging in funeral celebrations.

Source: Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

Why not build your schools, with children schooling under trees and in empty garages without physical buildings. How about changing your education to teach them Black skin isn't really a race, that lighter skinned Blacks exist, teach them to stop calling other 'darky and blacky" as well. Maybe also teach them proper British english since you've made it your official language.

Also teach them not the most used tool in Africa is called a machete and not a cutlas like they all seem to think it is. Why teach them about what a tourist looks like, teach them farming, stop screaming people's skin color when they're trying to avoid attention walking down the road. Better yet teach them to stop burning plastic bottles and other toxic items.

Some of Ghana's and Africa's most talented humans are homosexuals, they sure are the most fun to be around. Especially with the rampant rape culture and mentality of abusing (and now killing) women that's taking place in Ghana. It feels much more soothing being around men who one knows won't try to rape them. Or better yet accuse them of being lesbians and rape them with that tired get out of jail card used in Ghana.

No one expects to attend a damn pride parade in the homophobic capital of the world West Africa, but at least don't want to see people beaten in the streets like animals. Ghana has that to offer for it's tourists. Or get confuse for you one (homosexual) and get the shit kicked out of you for not being butch enough. Like the long finger nailed, teeth sucking like a group of pre-teen girls, skinny jeans with no underwear Ghanian males.

Ghana has nothing beautiful to offer, so it gives you slave chambers, glooming, evil hollowed out cemeteries. Or the Atlantic Ocean re-named the Gulf of Guinea where you can see a sea of their discarding plastic bottles or even catch some Ghanians sitting in the ocean even.

This smelly toilet body of water that leads into the ocean, smelled as gross as it looks Standing over this area made me retch, the Ghanian accompanying me refused to get closer to this smell.

Driving through some of the most expensive real estate in Ghana, Osu Accra you can't help but turn down unpaved roads where people worked hard in tiny shops. Some of the people were very rude, with the name calling but most were hard working, uneducated to the fact that light skin Blacks are Black too. I don't know how they don't know it with so many famous lighter skinned Blacks but none-the-less you're white to them.

Africans are mostly paid monthly, Ghana recently, this year I believe raised the daily minimum wage to 14.88 GHC. Depending on the strength of the dollar that is around $1.10- $1.20 USD a day. Can you live off that? Imagine making less than $50 USD a month, in a country which asks for 1, 2 or 3 years rent in advance.

Ghana Ministry of housing continues to claim that they only allow 6 months rent to be collected at a time. When many parts of Africa allow you to pay monthly. Ghanians have to get up so much money to move into their own places. Then you think their housing is quality?

Yeah, right I have an ocean I can sell you. Who checks things like that, who cares to even check things like that? You think the huge oversized government cares? Now they want to sell you more trauma torism, come see how they burry the dead, don't care about their living that they even ignore daily because why bother.

Ghana's motto will forever be, "It is what it is!" Skip the trip and go to East or Southern Africa. Soon when Burkina Faso gets rid of terrorism you can go there, or Sierra Leone, Senegal or The Gambia.