Baby, You're the Tops!

Feeling bad about not keeping up with the signs I meant to post on my blog, Conor and I created a list of our favourites. We also created a list for our top 15 conversations that we have had, or almost had but really don't want to have, with Ghanaians.

Top Favourite Signs (In no particular order)
1) Don't Mind Your Wife Chop Bar
2) CIRCUMSISE! your child here
3) No Weapon Restaurant
4) The Blood of Jesus Tailoring
5) Honorable Waste Management
6) Quebec Enterprises
7) The Young Shall Grow Haircut
8) Powerful Haircut
9) "Bullet/Cobra Power" (Men's health sign advertising some kind of Viagra type thing...with detailed paintings of strong and grinning, flexing naked men and their rigid "cobras")
10) God Will Do Welding
11) Don't Let AIDS "Service" YOU!


Top Conversations That We Discovered we don't Want to Have (but despite our best attempts, often have to) in Ghana. This is again in no particular order.
1) "Why don't you love me?" (self explanatory)
2) "Do you want to marry a Ghanaian?" (This is often trying because the answer is always no...and I only become more resolute about this over time)
3) "White People are ALWAYS great! (and Black people are not/lazy/steal)"...(this one is terrible)
4) "The Bible says...."(you'd think this one wouldn't be so bad for me, but often people come at me with it in an attempt to prove that women are inferior to men.....they picked the wrong person to pull this on. A sentence that starts this way rarely turns into a pleasant conversation, unfortunately.)
5) "Do you want to marry me?" (This can also be issued as a command or a statement that I will marry them or that I already have.)
6) "Do you like dancing/clubbing/alcohol/drinking/sex?"
7) "Homosexuals are....(insert negative, stereotype or statement of non-existence here)"
8) "There is no such thing as male prostitutes! How could it work?!" (This was one of my favourite conversations actually...but I wouldn't have it with most people....this particular instance was with a good friend)
9) "Hey Baby!/Its nice to be nice"
10) "Hello! My name is....will you write me a letter of invitation to you country/home/help me get a visa?"
11) "Yovu! Dash me 10 000! (or any ammount really....10 000 is one current cedi)"
12) "Let you go? Why?" (The earlier mentioned confusion of Papa Oubadouba)
13) You have indigenous people? Are they blacks? They must be whites if they are from Canada."
14) "Someone told me that people from the North Pole would die if you put them in Ghana, because their bodies are different. Is this true?" (apparently Inuit are believed to react like salt water fish chucked into a lake...according to this one person)
15) "Did you buy me bread/What did you bring me?" (This is usually meant in jest, something everyone says to one another....though one man, the one who crashed Conor's motorcycle last time keeps pestering us and we don't know if its a joke...it may be less of a joke where "rich white chicks" are concerned.)

Anyhow...all of these were certainly interesting conversations....I wish there was enough time to describe the results of these conversations....many of them happen multiple times with different people.