Judith Sawyer (3), Educationalist, Former Headmistress, Ghana International School

David looks back at an earlier interview with Judith Sawyer, educationalist and former Headmistress of Ghana International School. Comparing our present to our past often gives us a good indication of our future. Are we going in the right direction? Are we moving as fast as we
should? Who have been the winners? Who have been the losers? Do Ghanaian's aspirations for the future align with those of our visionaries, movers and shakers?

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[afosek]

Bravo! Mrs Judith Sawyer.

What ever you have said on this interview is the gospel truth about eduation in Ghana. I am a Ghanaian and I must admit that our educational system is full of junk.

I just hope that this interview will put our politicians and the education body into thinking.

[cocoaton]

vixxy02 your right, the authorities are suppose to regulate these things. This is where the system fails. However, I would think that most people would know what would be offensive to them in the case of someone handling their food. You said " the local people refuse to let her" well the african americans are becoming citizen there. They are the local people. But many people will not join them as that community did in forbidding that woman to fry akara. why can't any citizen have a voice.

[vixxy02]

It's the job of the govt. to educate the people as to the 'whats' and 'whys' , same as educating foreigners as to the 'whats' and 'whys'. What is acceptable to do and say, and what isn't. It's not for ANY FOREIGNER to educate them how they should live. If they don't like it don't stay.

[vixxy02]

@cocoaton So then the fault is with the authorities! They should be the ones to stop that practice,as well as educating the people on how not to behave, and about hygiene. Where I come from we don't have that problem, because it is totally unacceptable. There was a case whereby a woman came from a neighboring state and wanted to set up business frying 'akara' on the street. The local people refused to let her,because we just don't do it,and she thought she was being discriminated against.

[cocoaton]

Vixxy02 This is not lala land.There is no time to stroke these people any longer.Ghanians are the most traveled africans in the world. the walk me to the water thing has to stop. Ghana has to get it together quickly.Even if she could not moveThis is a customer. I would have given explaination.Then assure my customer that I have worked hard to make sure that my food was not tainted by the sewage in anyway.make the sale.And plan day and night to remedy the problem. Business is not emotionalism.

[vixxy02]

I can only talk from a Nigerian perspective, and from my place in particular, that foreigners are most welcome, and especially foreign blacks, who we see as our kith and kin, and none of them come with a 'better-than-you' mentality, they are just happy to be part of the society! We have a lot of people from the Caribbean, China, India, South America, Lebanon and of course other African nations, and they all love living there, and are made to feel at home, and they also contribute positively.

[vixxy02]

Nobody likes to be dictated to in their own land, no matter how good the intentions, nor do the natives like to be treated unfairly or looked down in their own country. Here in England there are a lot of resentments towards foreign Muslims demanding special treatment, and against Somalians in particular who they feel are crippling the health system, by coming in as asylum/refugees and just taking from the govt. and coming in with all sorts of diseases, and many children draining the resources.

[vixxy02]

@cocoaton So then who is to blame? The seller, the buyer or the govt? Personally I feel the govt, because this should not even be allowed. The seller may not have any other option but to sell there, because if there's no other place or the cleaner places might be expensive for her to rent. The seller should have got to know the woman a bit better before suggesting she moved away. She could have become a 'regular' that way they both would've been familiar to each other, then she could've told her

[cocoaton]

continued- a african american woman went to ghana. She was shopping. She saw them making some food outside in the market. she wanted some. but then she looked over right next to it. see saw open sewage. So she calmly told the woman. why don't you set your space away from the sewage, its cleaner and more people would want to buy from you. The woman lost it as though she said something horrible. ghana has to get past these things. They must understand that they are in need of lots of changes.

[cocoaton]

there are now many black americans there that have taken on citizenship. they are there living with the people. But they are constantly targeted for some kind of scam. second. ghana is constantly in acceptance of african american culture, music, fashion, why don't they learn the business, or ideas to help their system. the white man won't really help. he pretends to help. But they don't want ghana to grow. we love africa. we want to see it do bigger things.