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Aside from Crypto, how do y’all send money to folks in America, London easily?

Which Gym in Accra, preferably around the East Legon, Hatso, North Legon enclave has the best affordable trainers and facilities in Ghana?

I want to buy 20 acres of land in Winneba, I'll be farming and building my home. The price was initially was 1.2 million cedis but I negotiated down to 750,000 cedis, so 7,500 per plot. Roughly 2 hours from central Accra. The location has everything I require. For the area, is this a good price? If you have purchased land recently can you please state where and how much you paid? I can't find any recent comparisons, help!

Looking for recommendations for places to play pool and meet mutual enthusiasts.

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"Y3n ara y3n asaase ni."

But we are treating it like the asaase of our enemy.

From galamsey poisoning our rivers with mercury and chemicals, to city rivers choked with plastics, factory effluents, and literal shit. We are poisoning the land that feeds us. And we are doing it with a casualness that would be unthinkable if this land belonged to someone we loved.

In the hinterland, galamsey is depositing mercury into rivers that have sustained human settlement for centuries. The Pra. The Offin. The Ankobra. The Birim. Mercury doesn't wash away. It settles into sediment. Accumulates in fish. Enters the bodies of communities downstream who don't even know their water is contaminated.

In our cities the destruction is quieter but equally severe. Kumasi's Pelele, Accra's Odaw, the unnamed streams running through our neighbourhoods receiving plastic and effluent. This is not just a behaviour problem. It is an infrastructure failure producing predictable behaviour.

Ghana's own scientists have been raising the alarm for years.

CSIR-WRI has warned that Ghana faces the possibility of having NO treatable water source, surface or groundwater, if current pollution rates continue.

The Director of WRI said it plainly: "Either we stop abusing our water bodies now or Ghana becomes a Sahel country." That is not Ghana as it is. It is a scientific projection of Ghana as it could become within the lifetime of children being born today.

And a country that cannot treat its own water will eventually have to import it.

Ghanaians do not lack love for their land.

What is missing is the translation of that love into the daily decisions, individual, institutional, and political, that would express it in practice.

The love is real. The stewardship is failing. And that gap between the feeling and the behaviour is the wound at the centre of Ghana's environmental crisis.

The Ga say: Shikpon kɛ ahe ojogbaŋŋ — the earth does not forget.

The mercury in the riverbed. The topsoil carried to the ocean. The forest that will not return in our lifetime. The earth holds all of it. And eventually through flood, through drought, through poisoned water — it presents the account.

Y3n ara y3n asaase ni. This land is ours.

Then let us act like it belongs to us, not like something to be used up, but like something received in trust, for those who will come after us.

That is what it means to be Ghanaian. 🌿