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HABITANS OF GHANA • More than two thirds of the population did not have access to the elegant doctors at the end of the XXth century. Due to the purification of the waters and the sewer, The contagious diseases they prevail in the country. The life expectancy is a felling of approximately 50 years approximately. • His educational system is one of most developed of the tropical Africa; the elementary education is obligatory and free and consists of a primary cycle of six years and the secondary one of three.
ROLES OF WOMEN IN GHANA • Women and men in Ghana have distinctly different daily activities and social constraints. Women do different work than men. Women make up roughly 85 percent of the wholesale and retail trading industries and about two-thirds of manufacturing, working mostly in the informal sector. In agriculture, women usually grow food while men grow cash crops. Women bear primary responsibility for child-rearing, cooking, washing, and collecting fuel-wood and water. Relatively few women work in modern or formal sector activities.
ROLES OF MEN IN GHANA • Men's roles in families, however, are not improved automatically by their presence, nor do children necessarily benefit. Problems may arise if the father is at home but decision-making is not shared by both parents, as is often the case. Child welfare suffers when men unleash violence against women and children, when men spend income on goods that do not contribute to family welfare, such as alcohol, and when they serve as negative role models.
Chores: male and female roles The Ashanti tribe of the Akan are the largest tribe in Ghana. They are most famous today for their craft work, particularly their hand-carved stools and fertility dolls and their colourful kente cloth.
The Ashanti are noted for their expertise in a variety of specialized crafts. These include weaving, wood carving, ceramics, and metallurgy. Of these crafts, only pottery-making is primarily a female activity; the others are restricted to male specialists
Principal nourishment in ghana Soups are the primary component in Ghanaian cuisine and are eaten with fufu (either pounded plaintain and cassava or yam), kokonte (cassava meal cooked into a paste), banku (fermented corn dough), boiled yam, rice, bread, plantain, or cassava. The most common soups are light soup, palmnut soup, and groundnut (peanut) soup. Other Ghanaian favorites include gari foto (eggs, onions, dried shrimp, tomatoes and gari), agushie (squash seed sauce, tomatoes and onions), omo tuo (mashed rice balls with groundnut soup), jollof rice, red-red (fried plantain and bean sauce), kenkey (boiled fermented corn dough) and fish, kelewele (deep fried and heavily spiced plantain) and shito (hot pepper sauce).
JOLLOF RICE Jollof Rice is among the best known of West African dishes not only because it is delicious and easy to prepare, but because the ingredients are readily available in Western countries! Its origin, however, remains a bone of contention between several West African nations. There are many regional cooking variations—this version is my mother's!
PROVERBS Rats don't dance in the cat's doorway If what you are going to say is not more beautiful than the silence: do not say it. Don't insult the crocodile until you cross the water.
