Ghana - Still Thinking About That Move? African-Ameicans Posting About Scams & Othering in Ghana

Friday, 14 June 2023

By: TB Obwoge

As we approach Juneteenth, I want people to see the Hell that I lived in when in Ghana is now coming to light. Many Black Americans are posting about the scam and defraud life they found in Ghana. Not only that but being always considered foreigners in Ghana. Like I've written about Ghana, the Unwelcoming (you don't invite someone to a dirty house), never seems to end.

Black Americans that moved to Ghana and got stuck, turned into influencers to make money. It was the only way for many to earn a living, Working in Ghana doesn't pay much, the citizens are overworked and underpaid.

However many turned to scamming Black Americans, either outright or in romance scams. The US Embassy page will tell you that romance scams are often not taken seriously, especially by Ghana officials.

The UK High Commission already said that corruption in Ghana has been made acceptable. A Ghanaian scamming you out of thousands of dollars means nothing to them.

Also if Ghana government or officials take on your case as a crime, they would be ruining the fake peaceful and safe reputation of Ghana. Which is not true if you live in Ghana, especially as crimes rise in Ghana. When the cost of living went up so did the crime.

There are so many articles and social media posts, one Ghana Expat group with over 13,000 members, deletes posts about horrors in Ghana.

The owners of that group also run several social media platforms where they boast about tourism to Ghana. One thing you will notice they are often inside, don't show much video footage of outside in Ghana either. It is a husband and wife duo.

Here are some of the videos being posted about Ghana and a lot of people are talking about being scammed and defrauded. This woman is talking about how Ghanaians in Ghana are jealous of Black Americans.

Sadly Malik, a Black American man that maintains his home in New York City and in Accra, Ghana said that Ghanaians have said some odd things to him. These things lead him to believe that many are angry that they weren't born in the United States, one man told him he was said that his ancestors "missed the boat!"

He was assuming he would have had a better life had his ancestors been sold into slavery and lived in America. However not all sold Africans ended up in the United States, there are many all over the world. There are even Black Africans in Iran, some say they've been there since slavery was taking place decades ago.

Here is a video from a man who's page is called "Black To Africa" he frankly doesn't seem to have ever lived in Africa, I don't know I can't stand his voice and don't follow his page.

However he post a lot of videos about Ghana and some of the issues in Ghana.

In one video he said that he's travled to a lot of countries in Africa, however being a tourist in any country is nothing like living in the country. This is the same for many people who visit Ghana and proclaim they love it. You won't if you live in the country for some time.

Many people who even love Ghana admit that it is very hard living in Ghana and there is a lot to get used to.

Below is a video where I was going to join "Black To Africa", however he changed the time of the meeting, he also wanted people to speak for only 10 minutes then he speaks for most of the time it was well over an hour. He also claimed that there were a lot of people that wanted to be on the video but it doesn't appear as if there were a lot.

These were all Black Americans scammed in Ghana, he also kept saying he only wanted land scams, after first saying he wanted people who were scammed. I gave up and was not included and I regret this however I am fine making my own shorter videos.

Here is a video from an older Black American woman who speaks about her issues in Ghana. I will be linking up with her soon to make a video. She curses a lot in her videos and is very angry about being treated like a foreigner in Ghana but it will never stop.

The Lebanese have been in Ghana for decades and they are always treated as if they don't belong, even Black Americans visiting Ghana treat them poorly.

They employ hundreds maybe even thousands of Ghanaians by the way, so when you don't go to their places then they can't pay their Ghanaian workers either.

This video is from a Ghanaian woman, she's talking about stealing from her fathers store. Again this is an issue in Ghana, even many Ghanaians don't want to hire Ghanaian workers for this same reason. When a person who is not Black wants to hire others, not Ghanaians they are called racists.

This video was posted to Instagram, please go and read the comments, you will see the mentality of some Ghanaians that support stealing and murder. These people were not only stealing from her father they were planning to murder him and burn the business down.

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