Reply #3: Safe is a cliche [View All]

[LooseWilly]

It's also an illusion. You can be stabbed and killed as easily in London or Paris as anywhere bordering Ghana. Even easier still in many cities in the US.

I'd say keep an eye out for places in Ghana that might be interesting to visit — without any heads of state being involved.

You know... meeting some locals who aren't rich and powerful politicians. Maybe someone you meet will be willing to take you to visit family/friends in the country (I met an odd Guatemalan family that way, after meeting a girl on a bus). It'll give you a chance to see what the people really think... and maybe you'll learn some local card games and drink some local liquor... (I doubt Ghana is any more unsafe now than Guatemala was at the height of the Zapatista uprisings in Southern Mexico, blamed on Guatemalan revolutionaries, back in '94.)

Or you could go and see the London Bridge and some pubs that close at 10 p.m. ... or get a crepe from a cart beside the Seine in Paris (which doesn't taste significantly different from a crepe anywhere else)... or sit on a Paris park bench covered in pigeon shit—cultured pigeon shit I'm sure... but white and green lumpy pigeon shit none-the-less.