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I took this a few minutes ago. It looks so peaceful, Did anyone else see it?

I'm on a mission to go around and ask each country subreddit what people think about beans (my favorite meal!), just to see how people like or dislike them all around the world out of curiosity and for fun. If you like beans, hate them, they are a big part of the culture, anything else, just share your thoughts! 🫘

A little birdie in the Cote D'Ivoire post told me it would be a fun time to ask you bunch this question, as you have the Waakye and Gobe! So tell me about them beans if you may, dear Ghanaians :D

Hello!

I am bringing a group of high school students to Accra in January. There are 15 people total (12 students, 3 adults).

I am mostly struggling to find accommodation that is suitable for our group.

1. We've looked into hostels but a lot specify that guests need to be 18+

2. For both safety and financial purposes, we typically want queen beds per room if we go the traditional hotel route so we can put 4 students in each room. (Girls and boys have separate rooms of course). However a lot of recommended hotels seems to just cap out at a single king bed. Further, I'd ideally want them to experience Ghana more intimately instead of a chain hotel. Not opposed to a chain if there's a good option though!

3. We are struggling where to "home base". I've traveled to about 40 countries, but this is my first time anywhere in Sub Saharan Africa and my first time taking students on a trip of this magnitude. A lot of the neighborhoods feel amazing, but I just can't seem to commit to one that allows us the most flexibility. Ideally, I want somewhere we can walk around as the logistics of frequently going in and out of Accra with that many people just becomes more strenuous.

Any and all recommendations into places to check out would be amazing. If you have had students stay in a place and have experience, that'd be even better!

Thanks a ton in advance. I'm very excited for this trip and the impact it will have on my students and myself.

Note for any travel guides: we are a small HS and don't charge students to go on these trips. We cover flights and hotels and everything and make it part of the curriculum. Because of this, we are on quite a tight budget. I definitely am willing to potentially work with you, but I don't want to waste your time or undervalue your work. For the most part the planning falls on me, and single event guided tours of locations are about all we can afford to book rather than a person who arranges the entire trip for us. Thanks in advance, I appreciate the work you do to educate people on your beautiful country.

Mental health is not a joke. It is not something to laugh at, dismiss, or brush aside as if it doesn’t matter. Too often, people who are struggling emotionally or mentally are told to pray harder, stop overthinking, or simply be strong. While faith can be a source of comfort, people also need understanding, support, and professional help without being judged or shamed.
And to Ghanaian parents, please listen to your children. Your child should not have to suffer in silence because they are afraid of how you will react. Not every struggle is disrespect, laziness, stubbornness, or a lack of gratitude. Sometimes, your child is hurting in ways they cannot even explain. Sometimes, they are crying out for help without knowing how to ask for it.
Create a home where your children feel safe enough to speak about their feelings without fear of being insulted, compared to others, dismissed, or told that other people have it worse. You may not always understand what they are going through, but you can choose to listen, show compassion, and take their pain seriously.
We cannot keep losing people to struggles we refuse to acknowledge. We cannot continue to stigmatize mental illness and then wonder why people suffer in silence.
Ghana must do better. We need more mental health awareness, accessible professional support, and a society that treats mental health with the same seriousness as physical health.
Let’s stop making jokes about people’s struggles. Let’s stop shaming people for asking for help. And let’s teach our children that their feelings matter, their voices deserve to be heard, and they do not have to suffer in silence.
You never know what someone is battling behind closed doors. Choose compassion. Listen. Take mental health seriously. 🇬🇭❤️
#MentalHealthMatters #GhanaMustDoBetter #EndTheStigma #ListenToYourChildren #MentalHealthAwareness

Commercial banks will begin collecting a 20% tax on qualifying cross-border digital services from October 15, 2026, increasing the cost of subscriptions to platforms such as Netflix, Spotify and ChatGPT where the applicable taxes are not already included.

The rollout follows directives from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) requiring banks to collect and remit applicable taxes on qualifying digital transactions made with Ghana-issued bank cards.

The rollout follows directives from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) requiring banks to collect and remit applicable taxes on qualifying digital transactions made with Ghana-issued bank cards.

Other services potentially covered include cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and DigitalOcean, as well as online advertising services offered by Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn. Etc

Hey everyone,
I am creating a reading group on Substack where we meet at the end of every month to discuss the books we have read.
It would be a perfect opportunity and place to make new friends for those interested in meeting new people.

So text me on Substack @Nora Sefa if interested
Thank you

I’ve built and launched a tech startup that’s already live, attracting users, and generating revenue from paying subscribers. Now, I’m looking for the right investor or strategic partner to help push it to the next level.
I’m looking for someone serious who can bring capital, strategic insight, valuable connections to help scale the business and unlock its full potential.

I’m keeping the details private for now, but I’m happy to discuss the traction, revenue, valuation, and growth opportunities with genuinely interested people.
If you’re an investor or know someone who backs early-stage tech businesses, please DM me. Let’s talk and build something significant.
📩 Telegram: @mr_thril

A plastic bottle, food waste , and a broken laptop all have value. But getting those materials out of our streets and into recycling plants depends on the people picking them up—and whether recovering the waste is actually worth their time.

I’ve been building a project called TrustGrid to test a straightforward question: Can we make environmental cleanup a reliable, daily source of income?

We’re running three small research pilots across plastics, organics, and e-waste in Ghana and Zambia.

Here is how it works:

When a collector brings waste to a participating local processing plant, TrustGrid verifies the delivery and adds a small extra payment on top of the regular market price, sent straight to their Mobile Money.

Through these pilots, we’re trying to answer three practical things:

1. Does extra pay actually lead to more waste being collected?
   
2. What does it cost per extra kilogram recovered?
   
3. Where can long-term funding for these top-ups come from once the pilots end?

The collectors, aggregators, and recycling facilities are already out there doing the heavy lifting. Our goal is just to connect the dots—making sure every delivery is logged honestly and paid out instantly, so the whole system works better for everyone involved.

We know there will be bumps in the road, and we'll probably have to tweak the model as real data comes in.

For anyone here who has worked in waste management, built MoMo/payout systems, or funded field projects: What would convince you that a setup like this is actually realistic and worth scaling?

I have been prescribed with Ritalin 10mg and I really need it but it's currently out of stock here in Burkina Faso. I tried to get it in Ghana with the help of someone there but pharmacies says the prescription should be from Ghana. Going to Ghana just to get a prescription would be to expensive for me right now. Is there any pharmacist or anyone here who can help me ? I really need those medicines.

It’s really disheartening how mental health issues are treated as a joke in this country, especially men’s mental health
Countless times I’ve seen ppl on the verge of committing get dismissed or mocked for speaking up about it , it’s just so bad
Another beautiful soul just gone like that .

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I am currently conducting an academic research for my thesis focusing on how project management leadership styles influence quantity surveying service delivery within the construction sector in Ghana.

I'd appreciate sparing 10 minutes to fill the form. Thanks.

Includes complementary airtime.

Link here

Taking a group of HS students to Accra in January. The connecting theme of our trips this year is how sports builds culture and connects people and communities. Especially with the Accra sports stadium, collegiate, and local sports present in Accra I really want students to either experience a game or boxing or anything else. Even the opportunity to play a game with a local high school or college would be amazing and really allow them to connect with people their own age in Ghana.

Any recommendations or tours of any stadiums you know that occur? It seems like a lot of teams aren't playing at home the dates we are there (last week of January). Any events that we might not know as tourists that occur around that time would be amazing too!

If you are a coach for any sport or team and would love to have some students see a match or practice or play with your team, please let me know!

Thank you in advance!

Chale this isn’t funny at all. 20% for digital cross-border purchases is insane. I checked my mail and it covers a lot: Adobe, AWS, Music Streaming, Steam, PlayStation, Ad Services (including meta), Whatsapp Business, Uber, Bolt, VPNs…

At this point it’s more difficult to figure out what it doesn’t cover. 20% fora digital product which seems a little punitive doesn’t it? Or it a low hanging revenue fruit that won’t lose an election?

How long do you think it will take before squad find a way around this?

We've been raised to hide our struggles, to act like we're okay even when we're not.

Sometimes, when I talk to people, I can hear the pain in their voices, even when they don't say anything about what they're going through.

The difficult part is that I often don't know what to say to them.

What's even more heartbreaking is that even children as young as 10 have learned to hide their pain.

Sometimes, you have to reassure them over and over again before they feel safe enough to open up.

Hey ya’ll - I’m an American (apologies in advance) who passes as white. I’ve recently discovered that one of my ancestors was an enslaved person who came from Ghana.

I am interested in visiting Ghana to connect with this part of my heritage, and to pay respect to my ancestors who came from there.

What would you recommend seeing/doing while I am there? Are there places of particular significance that might be important to visit? Any tips for an American who is visiting generally?

From reading the captions, it seems to be mainly mothers of teen sons accused of stuff like stealing or coming home late who are employing his services to basically bully their sons for a while to 'change' them. I haven't seen any caning or physical violence in any of the vids but, I mean, the boys wouldn't do it if there wasn't at least the implicit threat of violence, right? Also, a lot of them cry (including the older boys) and there's also the part where they're filmed and put on the internet, yikes!

But a lot of the commenters love it, saying "it's discipline" blah blah blah (you know Ghanaians and our love for corporal punishment).

So i bet y'all animation lovers have seen the last airbender all three seasons, The Legend of Korra and the recent avatar movie. So let's have a classic debate that has been going on for a few years now. Korea and Aang, who beats who. Kindly take all three films into consideration and individual prowess.

NB: Please be kind and watch your words. It's a joke debate. Let's all have fun

And I hope this doesn't go against the rules of this subreddit.

East Legon cemetery outside of Sunyani has some of the nicest mausoleums I have ever seen. 😄 Some of these ancestors are resting in style. 😄 Some have solar powdered houses, TV, AC, fridge, gardens, some are two storey...

What do you think of this?

I’ve always been fascinated by the strange things that sit at the edges of our understanding: the possibility of lives beyond the one we know, the mysteries of consciousness, the thin line between the seen and unseen, and the ways our ancestors understood a universe that still refuses to give up all its secrets.

These questions found their way into my 4th book and new collection of stories, **The Moon Knows All the Secrets of the World**, Rooted in magical realism and African cosmology, the book explores strange encounters, memory, grief, love, identity, and the possibility that reality is far more mysterious than our ordinary lives allow us to believe.

I’m drawn to the thought that we might be connected to one another, and to the universe itself, in ways we haven’t yet learned to understand. We arrive in this world with so many questions, inherit stories from those who came before us, and leave with mysteries still unresolved. Perhaps some stories help us sit a little longer with those questions instead of rushing to answer them.

**The book is free on Amazon for the next 24 hours**

Read/download it here: https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Knows-all-Secrets-World-ebook/dp/B0HCFJ5J76/ref

If you decide to read it, I’d love to hear what you think. An honest review would also mean a great deal to me as an independent author.

I'm currently making a video about scams in ghana for my YouTube and I was was wondering if y'all had stories i could use.

I cannot believe the NDC has gone ahead to appoint a known member to the Electoral Commission. I have lost all hope in Ghanaian politicians. They will continue to toy with the system. So sad...