I MOVED TO GHANA FROM CANADA, THE FACT THAT YOU TOOK A PLANE AND GOT HERE GIVES YOU A $HIGH CLASS
I MOVED TO GHANA FROM CANADA, THE FACT THAT YOU TOOK A PLANE AND GOT HERE GIVES YOU A $HIGH CLASS
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This video is an interview with Potia Gana , A Ghanaian born Canadian who moved from Canada to Ghana and shares her view on the Rising of Gentrification in Ghana, we dive deeper into why…
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This is a great interview. It brings up a lot of issues. I moved to Ghana 3 years ago, married a Ghanaian man, and help him run a free school in Ashaiman with 200 kids. We do not charge school fees and we can't even find people willing to help. I have seen a lot of the Diaspora come to the country to start small businesses, buy land and build their mansion and close the gate behind them. Most of us "adopt" a school and make sure that we bring books, supplies, and toys, and that is the extent of our community investment. I can understand why the Diaspora would hire their own people, the Chinese, European, and other foreigners do it, but people only have a problem with it when Black people do it. Every major city in the States has a Chinatown, Little Italy, etc. Other minorities frequent each other's businesses, live together, and worship together, but It's as thou Black Americans are expected to give more to the community because of the color of our skin. I think that long-term change will only come when the politicians are willing to invest in the community, also we (The Diaspora) should pay taxes. Most of us would be happy to pay taxes if we could be sure that it would build the infrastructure, and of course, that the Ghanaian citizens paid taxes. Only 20% of those who are required to pay taxes do. Each year in the United States, 2.5 million illegal immigrants paid $6 billion in taxes. As a Fundraising professional (raised over a billion dollars) I've started writing grant proposals to help universities and NGOs create processing plants that will employ thousands, provide training, and scholarships, and raise capital to invest in youth SMEs. I believe that we have to create jobs and provide education and affordable housing if we want to see true change in Ghana. Charity is a noose around the Africans. It is not enough to (give a man a fish), we keep passing out grilled tilapia, we must help folks start tilapia farms and help them get off-take agreements to export their products.
A Ghanian woman with dyed blonde hair talking negatively about the diaspora who seek to return to the land that they were stolen from speaks volumes.
Great commentary, but slavery was a global enterprise and so is colonialism – so yes both influence the emergence of gentrification and both were capitalist enterprises….
She does not know what she is talking about. People are homeless for different reasons- she is not even American. Why are you listening to her.
An American cannot be in Ghana without helping. It’s impossible. Is there mind engulfed in the culture? No. It will happen with time. And all rich people and their kids eat fast food in America. That’s their top food not ours.
So if we cant be African American there… but rather Black Americans…why are we being expected to cater any differently from other foreigner/ gentificationalists…? Not being "BACK HOME" ACTUALLY
Gentrification has NO color… just as we in the states are losing our RUN DOWN/ neglected Regions & must pull ourselves by boot straps, which not even most of us are getting that point… communities in Ghana and all over Africa must stand up, look around, and smell the coffee like black Americans… classism/ capitalism/hardcore difficult striving to grow is a rushing waterfall… they're is no real way to pull up while also lift up
You are talking off the wall. Now when you say that black American doesn’t know where we are from. People we are from Africa Born in America 🇺🇸 . If you take a Chinese person out of China is not that person still a Chinese by Birthrights . Culture is different from Birthright . Our ancestry were slaves from Africa if you didn’t know this now you know .✊🏾
She Sounds like she Drunk 🍸🧋
Africa is definitely calling me, but I must say that for some reason Ghana or Nigeria was never on my list. I'm sitting back and watching what becomes of Burkina Faso in the near future. It's refreshing to see my people operating with integrity, self love and pride. I'm going to a country to be of service, leaving the dishonest, capitalist, US value system behind. I intend to be surrounded with people with like minds.
I'm mixed races. Blacks are not treated worse here where I live. 350 million people here. 15 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police last year. Far more whites were slain. Unfortunately, there are populations in areas of poverty that suffer here like everywhere else.
They became privilaged because of the dollar – cedi exchange rate and seeding capital. Ghanaian business men and women who have capital, know- how and will create job opportunities for their own people.
Roadside eating will probably be addressed by the diaspora but then the ghanian will hate the diaspora for doing that.
Ghanaians are too hypocritical and jealous of the diaspora.
The poor governance is problematic
2 years rent😮in advance . Explortation by your own people. That's jealousy and hatred by the Ghanaians living in Ghana. Man black people 😮
Ghanaians living in Ghana should all move to the west so the diaspora can move in. You all can't see how wealthy Ghana is. BUT the descendants of slavery can.
I was planning on " retiring" in Ghana BUT I'm rethinking I should consider another African country.
You have all these business venture are you helping your community?
How dare they have rational self interest
i like her she is smart
how can we follow her on social media
Respectfully…. This girl has no idea what she's talking about when it comes to America. She's only repeating what she has heard. She has never lived in America . Most of what she's saying about America is opinion and not factual.
The homeless population in San Francisco is due to drug addicts and mental health. These are Not corporate people sleeping in tents then putting on suits and going to work the next day because the rent is so high. 😂 That is totally ridiculous.
Also, Ask yourself this. Can the person cleaning the rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Miami or NewYork afford to stay there 1 night. No they cannot. It would take their entire monthly salary.
I do agree that foreigners are treated better in Ghana, and white foreigners are treated the best. That's the result of colonization and white supremacy. Black Americans treat white Americans better than they treat other blacks. It's what Brainwashing, white supremacy, white Jesus produces.
Gentrification is not the fault of Black Diaspora, nor the Ghanaian government. It's what you get with capitalism. If you what the prosperity of Western Capitalism, you must accept the pains it also bring. Gentrification is just one of many.