Ghana is Dirty

Ghana is dirty - I am being deliberately provocative. But in that provocation, there is no exaggeration. Insanitary conditions point to a breakdown along several axes - public health, public logistics, enforcement of law and order, general respect for each other, etc.

I can see no real way that a society can motivate itself to achieve world class standards in anything decent if, that same society is willing to live in filth and grime. Whatever is legal and morally acceptable that can be done to wage a war to deal with sanitation should be done. This is one such small example. But it is an example of people doing something, rather than whining and leaving it at that. I can therefore only congratulate its originators.

by YAW NSARKOH
(photo courtesy of Esi Ansah)