The third group to present November 3, 2010 was a group named Miller. The title of their presentation was “The Re-Colonization of Ghana.” The group began with key information about Ghana. The capital is Accra and President Kwame became the president after Ghana gained its independence March 6, 1957. Ghana is a country with bountiful gold, timer, cocoa, diamonds, and oil. It’s often called the gold coast. After learning this information I began to wonder why the inhabitants of this country were so poor. I wondered why the minimal wage had to continue to increase because the value of Ghana’s money continued to decrease. The group answered my question when they began discussing the trend of Asians going over to Africa and basically monopolizing Ghana’s economy. According to the group, the Asians were opening up many businesses in Ghana and only hiring Asians to work for them; meaning that many Africans were left jobless. The group leader summed this cause and effect situation into “Chinese owned = Black unemployment.”
The group’s solution to this problem was for Ghana to make a make effort to trade its national resources with other countries to stop the monopolization within its country. I agree with this solution, but I don’t think that it’s that simple. I believe that if it was that simple Ghana would have been started doing it. In fact, citizens in Ghana don’t have enough power or influence to trade with other countries, because if they had the power to do that, they would have the power to stop the Asian monopolies and open up their own businesses.
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