Yes, today's the day turned out to be extremely chill outowy. Somehow it got just that we spent almost the whole of the place they met here on M, which travels from Mali through Burkina Faso, Ghana to Tanzania. Did you just like we rest in Cape Coast and so we met. M fajowym lives in the same place at the beach, in a house in the African style, under the palm trees and how to come up the steps, it has beaches and the ocean:) And we hang out there:)
Before noon we watched the castle, one of many that were built on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea slaves to the prison and send them into the world. The exhibition explains how trafficking arose, how has, in what way it came to an end. Of course, before I heard a lot about slavery, both in those distant times and today, but just being here and see how much I exploited the people moved.
Later, some walked the streets of Cape Coast - see I am still many signs of the time of colonialism (mainly agriculture, but also British mailboxes and a monument of Queen Victoria). Unfortunately, everything is dilapidated nieopisywalny way, actually on the decline. People live here virtually everywhere - not only in the remaining buildings, but also in the street are constructed of tiny workshops in the depressions in the ground, which in the course of roast fish, or just on the street. It seems that at the beginning of hardcore (sorry, I do not know how to control and to wonder, can not I can not compare and relate to Europe), but it proves that Africa is just different. And that's it.
What struck us much during this day, the large number of people just want to stretch money from us, which was not experienced in Accra. Ways to extract money are as follows:
- to charity - and suddenly some kind of card, which is a list of people who have already supported the golf club / help handicapped / purchase of books for children from the village / club gimanstyczny etc. And the person should be caught in August enter and give money,
- the friend - a clever way - at the first meeting we asked for names, then we went to watch the castle, and when we left him, waiting for us spotkani earlier, people with big felt-tip pen shells signed "For my friend M Mustafa ...... from Poland. " How to accept such a gift - a fee of brick,
- on bezczela - I'm poorer than you, and besides, I can learn and me, you should lean on,
- for sale - must become a very close distance from the donor or the future to follow him all the time showing the goods, which is August to sell, with this method is easy to deal not reacting, but it requires time - be patient sellers in our case, has managed to last for 20 minutes.
What struck us - each person satisfies the same questions: Where are you from? What's your name? Which once you are in Ghana? Which once you're in Cape Coast?, Virtually no waiting for a reply, and began attending to the work. Of course, in each of these situations, you can refuse to donate / support and did not happened to us that it caused a nasty atmosphere.
On the one hand striking and painful experience - that people do not can not cope on their own and earn a livelihood. On the other hand, if it is not we, the people of Europe, first by the year eksploatowalismy African countries, building a European power of the state and not investing in the development of Africa? And now wonder that Africa 'stand out', 'is clumsy'? Another issue is that here Europe stands as a paradise on earth - people want to leave for Europe, it seems to them that there is an easy life, rich and has no problems. Thus, as the rich Europeans, we should share with them, because for us it's $ 10 a substantial sum for them ...
afternoon we spent with the new friend they met M, plazujac, jumping the waves, talking. After the beach we went to the F rinse with sea water (very salty) and so I liked the place in which you live (I wrote about them at the beginning of post), perhaps, zasabotuje trip to Kumasi and to be here for a few days ...
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