The Question: How can America help improve the quality of life for all Ghanaians without over running the nation and creating the "white man's burden" attitude? The Problems that Impede Ghanaian Success: The Diet: The Ghanaian diet lacks nutrition, vitamin and minerals thus leading to unhealthy undersized peoples. The primary staple in the Ghanaian diet are starchy plants such as the cassava, yams, and maize. Cassava and yams are indigenous to Ghana, thus making a disproportionally large part of their meals. Maize was obviously imported as it was only domesticated in Central and South America. There are not many plants native to sub-equatorial African nations. Eventually a few vegetables have made their way in, such as the occasional tomato, cabbage, and okra. These are rare and used very sparingly. Meat is also rare. The majority of the meat that makes up the Ghanaian diet comes from rat, grasscutter (a large rodent that looks like a cross between a beaver and opossum), and bush goat (a small gazelle). To get these animals Ghanaians have reverted to hunting/gathering. Their method of hunting/gathering is to burn the bush to drive out the animals, which just compounds the several present problems. The few domestic animals they have are goat, cow, and chickens. The cows especially are so pitiful and unhealthy looking that their meat is very rare. Real ranching techniques are not in practice. The only fish they eat are Tilapia and some small sardine which they get from the wasteland of a water source they have. The attitude: Ghanaians on a whole are a very laid back lazy sort. From my encounters with them I feel that they rarely keep their obligations and have no sense of time. I find it amazing that anything gets done, but honestly, not much does. Besides their lack of motivation, they have now also imbedded in them an attitude that America and other western nations should only look to themselves to blame. Ghanaians, in general, have no...