Last year, a few of the Columbia girls with darker complexion (Haitian, Jamaican, etc.) were in the marketplace in Kumasi. The Ghanaian vendor (a woman) said to them, "Your ancestors were the lucky ones. Look at you. If only my children's children could have half the blessings."

Such a poignant statement and powerful revelation, that a free Ghanaian woman would look at who she assumed were the descendants of slaves taken from Africa generations before, and stand in envy of those slaves... for the opportunity that would be provided to their descendants.

Countdown to Ghana: 25 days
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