GHexpat

The last five US Presidents, if you also count Vice Presidents and First Ladies, have all visited  Ghana , thus proving that this country is indeed a special place, to say the least. Bill Clinton started the trend (alongside Hillary ) in 1998 when he became the first US President to come to this country.  Then in 2008 George W. Bush , along with his wife and Condolezza Rice , touched down in Accra and left such a strong impression,  in his own special way , that now there's a major highway in the city named after him.  The following year, newly-elected President Barack Obama also came to visit.  Then about a decade later, in 2018  Melania Trump , wife of the Donald , who was US President at the time, made her way over .  And now, just a couple of weeks ago  Vice President Kamala Harris popped up with her husband, Second Gentleman (lol) Douglas Emhoff in tow.  So as far as I could surmise, Ghana holds the distinction of being the only Afr...

I would presume that as with myself, reading the news brings that "wars and rumor of wars" quote to mind with many other people also.  In other words there always tends to be at least one war going on that's worth worrying about even if you don't live anywhere near the battlezone, and/or what feels like the ever-increasing prospect of a bigger conflict breaking out.  That's how it is with the current Russian invasion of the Ukraine .  On one hand the situation reads like a beef between neighbors.  But on the other, all types of other states have also become involved, including the likes of the United States and China , who have their own respective beef which is being played out in the Ukraine, a situation that some already consider to be a proxy war . HAS WORLD WAR II EVER ENDED? Recently, I had the opportunity to study World War I and World War II in a pretty in-depth way.  The latter was basically an extension of the former.  And as for WWII, it's de...