In Ghana, the landscapes are as different as the population. Many Peoples are living together peacefully in the state which was founded in 1957.

The country is on the point of  performing a leap over several centuries. Traditionally dressed regents can often be seen conjuring up a mobile from underneath their garments.

Many people cannot keep up with this velocity. Poverty and illiteracy are widespread. Polygamy is found more often in rural than in urban areas. A lack of knowledge about contraception has as consequence that families have more children than they can nourish.

In spite of all that, most of the Ghanaians are cheerful and really friendly.

After school, many children assist their parents. They sell goods, clean shops and serve dinner in so-called chop bars, the Ghanaian version of snack bars. In fishing villages, some children even leave the classroom during the lessons when the family boat approaches the beach.

The six years of primary education are compulsory and, since 2006, free from school fees. Nevertheless, children in the rural northern areas and abandoned children in the cities do not attend school regularly.

Women have a lot of kitchen work. They use old methods to prepare food. The picture shows the preparation of tomato purée.

Most families in Ghana are very numerous and often many women are cooking together.

Ghana is a country of business women. Those women are vendors, cooks, inn-keepers - like the woman in the picture. She is carrying a crate of beer on her head. Business can be very small - some women even collect and assort stones and sell them.

Hard work in business and at home creates physically strong women. In the Ghanain countryside, no man would carry a woman's suitcase.