The intensity and bloodshed were not great before firearms. Picking favorites to be groomed as allies is a time-honored strategy of controlling powers. It creates divisions along ethnic lines that can be enhanced by unfair distribution of wealth and education. Had we used our wealth properly after independence, we wouldn't be where we are today. As the engine of global-economics races around the world, Burayidi looks to the United Nations as a necessary buffer in Africa.
Birth rate is linked to poor health and child mortality.
In the Third World a child is social security in old age. Burayidi explains that in understanding Ghana, one must understand the closeness people feel to the land regardless of shifting boundaries. Land cannot be sold. It is leased for use. Land belongs to those who are dead, to those who are living and to those yet to come.