ELI-Ghana Ghanaians are warm, friendly, and sociable people. They are polite, open, and trusting - even with strangers. They tend to take life at a more relaxed pace, viewing time as a series of events rather than a matter of hours or minutes.
People are more important than schedules.
Tolerance and acceptance are typical individual characteristics. The group is valued over personal needs. Ghanaians are proud of their status as the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence from a European power. Although greatly influenced by Western civilization, the people are striving to develop a nation and culture that is uniquely African. Western visitors should take care not to act, or give the impression of being superior just because they come from industrialized nations.