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GHANA
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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

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• Women's lives are usually described in terms of
  motherhood

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FOOD OF GHANA
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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).

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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 variationsthis version is
my mother's!
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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.