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Do you want to see only good news? Press! The average Russian knows little more than nothing about the Republic of Ghana. Nevertheless, compatriots and Russian-speaking residents of the post-Soviet space managed to settle even in a distant African country. Reader Vladimir Biryuk told Lente.ru about his life in this African state. The story told turned out to be confused and emotional, full of desire to prove that the country is worthy of attention. “I was born in the BSSR, in the city of Slonim, I am 63 years old. I came to Ghana to do business, which in the end did not work. But I did find a wife! Now this is my second homeland - my village, my street, my land, my ocean ... Although in fact I have two foreign citizenships - Belgian and Ghanaian. I have been to many places, I like the tundra near Urengoy, and the desert mountains of Yemen, and the Canary Islands. But nowhere are there so many positive people as in Ghana. I want to dispel negative m   in Ghana / Local yths about Africa,” Vladimir begins his story. The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders in the west with Côte d'Ivoire, in the northwest and north with Burkina Faso, in the east with Togo. From the south it is washed by the waters of the Gulf of Guinea of ​​the Atlantic Ocean. The population is 25.2 million people. The official language is English, the population also speaks Ashanti, Ewe, Fanta and other languages. The majority of Ghanaians (about 75 percent) are Christians, 17.6 percent are Muslims, and 5 percent follow traditional African religions. The country has significant natural resources (gold, diamonds, oil). The main sector of the economy is agriculture (cocoa beans as the main export commodity). Vladimir has been married to a resident of Ghana for 15 years, the couple is raising a five-year-old daughter. He also has a son from his first marriage. “My son has been flying around Africa with the UN for many years, he does not have such a rosy attitude towards Africans as I do: he sees a lot of grief - wars, UN camps. In general, all wars in Africa are where there are large resources - oil, gold, diamonds, rare earth metals. The conflicts are provoked from outside Africa, these are not internal African problems,” says the Belarusian. Just as one cannot understand Russia with the mind, one cannot approach the black continent with Eurologicals, Vladimir believes. But there are aspects in the local society that are understandable and familiar. “Classic family relationships in Africa are very important, talk on the BBC about all these gay marriages is listened to with disgust. Relatives are sacred: if you have risen, the business has gone up, you need to help relatives, and it is unlikely that the money will be returned. I have a sincere, respectful relationship with my wife's family. If you treat without arrogance, you will be yours, even if you drop it (a white foreigner), ”says Biryuk. General optionality and laziness, according to Vladimir, is a key feature of Africa. “There is a motto like the Russian “right now ...” here, only reinforced many times over. Once we agreed with a relative to help my mother-in-law build a gazebo. We agreed the next day at 2 p.m., I hoped that he would come at least before six in the evening, when it starts to get dark, but I didn’t guess: he appeared two days later and innocently offered to help when everything was done, ”recalls Vladimir. Another feature of both Africans and whites who live in Africa for a long time is to work with laziness - slowly, slowly. “I myself suffered from this, relaxation from the heat and physical work are incompatible,” he admits. Women feel free in Ghana everywhere except the Muslim north. “Violence and humiliation of a woman is very rare, it is incompatible with traditions. Often women have their own business and income is much higher than men,” notes Vladimir. The attitude towards children in the country is reverent: “I have not seen homeless, hungry, street children in Ghana. Here relatives will take orphaned or abandoned children. Like, for example, my mother-in-law took her disabled grandson. The ex-daughter-in-law did not vaccinate the child against polio, and he fell ill. After a divorce, ex-husbands and wives often stay with their father-in-laws or father-in-law with their mother-in-law.” Any white for the locals is a rich man, which, according to Vladimir, is partly true: those who come here on vacation are really not poor (air travel from Europe is quite expensive). If the https://tonaton.com/s_141-diesel-suppliers-services