Don't Be Afraid of Fraudsters in Ghana
I always find it funny - for lack of a better word - how historically the American media has depicted Africans as being primitive or intellectually inferior, yet now, in the information age, some Americans are so intimidated by African fraudsters that some don’t trust any netizen from the Motherland. I’ll admit that the fraud situation is a lot worse in Ghana than it was a generation ago. But to help put things in perspective, look at it like this. In the U.S., disenfranchised and disillusioned youth tend to get into drug dealing in the name of generating income. But in this part of the world, those same type of people take up fraud, most often via the internet. I was inspired to write this post by a Ghanaian friend who recently told me he came across a video whereas an African-American couple, apparently with their children, decided to move to Ghana, got beat in the head by fraudsters and responded by damning the entire country. ...