WHY NOBODY WANTS TO LIVE IN THIS PART OF GREATER ACCRA GHANA ? | LIVING IN GHANA
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I explored a township within the Accra region of Ghana called Ashaiman. Its an interesting area to visit as there is such a big contrast between Ashaiman and the main parts of Accra and Tema.
In this part of Ghana, most of the people who live here have grown up here and hence have been living here for years. They still have a chief and a shrine where they practice the traditional culture. It was originally occupied by the Ga people but now there are several people who have migrated from other parts of Ghana to this side of town. This area is a high crime area but things have changed a little bit in recent times.
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Schools
2:59 - First part of Ashaiman (Zongo)
06:01 - Town made of wood (Taboo Line)
11:19 - Where the Chief Lives (Taifa)
14:07 - Newtown
15:30 - Jericho (Farming in Ashaiman and the man made dam)
17:43 - New Quarters (Beautiful residential homes)
19:01 - Talking to locals
22:04 - Ashaiman Market
22:49 - Scrap Yard
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My name is Jasmine and I have relocated from Sydney Australia to Ghana in west Africa as of the year 2020.
My parents are of Ghanaian descent and so am I although I was born in Australia. Here on my channel, my goal is to give you a real glimpse into what its like to live in Ghana, from the Ghanaian food, to the Ghanaian culture, to the Ghanaian lifestyle and everything in between. My goal is to satisfy your curiosity about Ghana and help inspire to explore Ghana.
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The guy said that crime in Ashaiman is down because people are busy trying to make money. Which is a great point. There were less opportunities for the youngsters. If you want to minimize crime, increase the opportunities for that community to thrive some.
That part.
But, those that's committing the crimes are the ones that's making things bad for those looking to make money. If criminals want an opportunity, they must go to church, pray, go to school, learn, and be willing not to commit crimes.
Literally to the 1% who's reading this, God bless you, may your dreams come true, stay safe and have a wonderful day. ❤️
Aww, thank you. God bless you too and may God's blessings and prosperity always be present in your life 🙏🏾❤
God bless you as well.
Derrick’s an awesome tour guide especially for a non tourist attraction/site !! Really impressed!!👌🏾👊🏾
I was born in Tema and never stepped there once. Ashaiman is a satellite town of the port city Tema, it became a town for labourers, undesirables and the less well off who couldn’t afford regular rents in the built and organised city of Tema. Ashaiman is under the Tema Paramountcy . ( Tema New Town )
These places tell a tale of the missed opportunities, the lost generations, hundreds of otherwise smart Ghanaians who fell through the cracks for being holed in these ghettos around the nation .
Can you see how poorly Ghana had been governed? This couldn’t have happened under Dr Nkrumah’s watch, l wasn’t born or raised under his tenure , but the more l learn about the man the more l get drawn to him and l am a dry fiscal conservative!
Ashaiman has the opportunity now to turn it's story around, in fact it's already happening, but the local authorities should fast track it if they're serious people.
The place should be properly zoned/planned out, roads should be dualized, high rises should be built to accommodate more people, about 5/6 big multistorey indoor markets should be created to accommodate traders who come from all over Ghana/West Africa to trade in Ashaiman, street lights, CCTV cameras, all houses should be encouraged to have toilets etc etc
With Ashaiman's teeming population and it's proximity to Tema, it's location on the busy Nigeria-Cote dIvoire route, it needs VISIONARY leaders to turn it into a proper modern city
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Amazing mind. Where are the people who can take these visionary decisions as one espouse by you in your comments?😢
I lived in this town 1996/97,,old Tulaku just few meters from Sakasaka Park. Terrible those days. You can't use the underpass between Ashaiman and Tema after 8pm alone.
@@markntiri8251 so so well said, Mark!
I have a feeling that, very soon, Ashiaman will be the next target for chiefs to start cutting up and selling like kelewele..u watch! Ashiaman is part of Tema, and I'm surprised these thieving disgraceful chiefs and so called leaders havent ventured Ashiaman yet, for so called new developments and pushing out the original settlers like this young man's family and all. They'll just lie to them with a few cedis and push them out. Chiaaa.
Once again showcasing the lives of regular people in Ghana. A detailed, insightful and humane look at a slum area that has more to offer than people realise. Another brilliant piece with very useful content. Well done Jasmine!!!
Thanks William 💜
People presume Ashaiman is dangerous but it really has dozen of cool neighborhoods. Crime rate has reduced, neighborhoods such as Lebanon , Jericho, official town really cool to dwell in
Exactly I have family in Lebanon and they have never experienced crime.
Ashaiman 😭 thanks for the video …. That’s my hometown but I’m now based in States 🇺🇸 seen places haven’t seen in years. Keep it up 👍🏿
Thanks Jasmine, this is a reall insightful stuff a really brave attempt to throw some light on an otherwise under rated community some of us indigenes rarely venture to explore. Your guide Derrick did a very good job as a chaperone. He's eloquent, knowledgeable and pleasntly humble too. They should start naming the 'roads' and the communities.
After graduating from University the first job I had was a news videographer in Texas. The white reporter I worked with became terrified when we had to cover stories in black neighborhoods. It was funny to watch him turn so many different colors with fear! 😨 We were never really in danger.🤣 Great story Jas!
Texas and Ghana are very different though so therefore not a fair comparison
@@gibson2675 So your the authority on Texas and Ghana?🤔
It can be really nerve wrecking in these places for sure lol
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Jasmine , Ghana is not a hell hole, you are likely to have your smart phone stolen than an attempt your life . The stats are there for anybody who cares to know, Ghana has one of the lowest violent crime rates in comparison to its size and population in the world. I am not candy coating Ghana because of my heritage , lam only stating the facts .
Thanks for the video ❤️🇬🇭
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Big up Jasmin wonderful to engage with these young men. FOOTBALLER GUYS, ZONGOLACA BOYS, BAMIJOYIA BOYS Nana, Kofi, Carlos and Cisco Derrik first born
Big up Derrik and all those young man whose names I cannot spell, and apologies for all my bad spelling. Pack money in the good way keep it real in Aishaman .... from Jamaica. Respect. With young man like you Aishaman will only get better. Footballers guys go easy with Queen Jasmine 👸..... Blessings to you all.
@Ken Campbell pls check out a Jamaican vlogger Soai now in Ghana with very informative vlogs.
Bless up
@@williamgamelisenaya793 Yes my brother will do ... Maakye
Big up for Derick for taking you on this tour Jasmine this was a beautiful perspective from ground zero glad you were able to do this. Lessons learn never judge a book by its cover. Well done Jasmine. Keep on rising. Rise ! 🔥🔥🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥
Well done Jas, it’s good to know what’s going on in and around Accra,
Wow so nice interesting thanks Ms Jasmine for the video Ashaiman Go Higher🙏❤️
I just love what you do Jasmine! You make content that centres the people of Ghana now just diasporans
Thanks for showing us Ashaman . I've heard of it many times when I was in Ghana. Now I know what it looks like to live there
good job, you show and talk about the good, bad and the ugly. places like this usually have genuine people living there.
Derrick big ups !!! a very good guy and you know your community very well💗🤪
This guy is good with the introduction to ashiaman, good job done and stay safe.
Wow.Ama this is really a good job done on Ashaiman.I wish you keep exploring most of the zongos. And let people know the good things found there.
Good topic.
Great video!!
That was professional reporting there jasmine. Good job
Thanks Daniel
Very interesting inside view!
Wow Jasmine good job. I really enjoyed every bit of this video. Your tour guide did very well. 👏👏👏.
So glad to hear xx
What a great young man. So knowledgeable
Great video, the perception about Ashaiman has been there for long....
So true
I love these type of content and how you produce them
Thanks Doreen x
First time here, quite interesting, subscribing now!
Ghana reminds me so much of Jamaica, the market people selling etc.
So true, when I went there it felt like a bigger Jamaica....I saw a lot of 🇯🇲 flags. I felt like I was there before....loved it there
I had the same impression when I visited Antigua and Jamaica. The market setting were the same. It can be traced to slavery. The people forced put of African brought some of their culture. I even saw some men playing aware. Peter Tosh was right, " no matter where you come from, as long as you are Black you are African".
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@@williamcochrane5410 I believe all of the Caribbean Islands have similar culture so I'm not surprised at what you saw in Antigua.
Ashanti Ga and Igbo all were stolen and bought to JA
You are brave girl. I have never been to and this is my first in-depth look of Ashaiman. Thanks for bringing us great content ❤️
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Thanks Derrick
Hi Jasmine, thank you for taking us around this community. Derrick was a great guide. His friends that you sat and spoke with was very honest about the community. I hope everything there improves. Great video! 🤗
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Thanks Sister Ama Keep up with your Good Work 👍✌️❤️👏👏👏👏🇬🇭💯
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Thank you for the info.
Ashaiman, my second home!!
I worked in Municipal Assembly a decade ago...
Very honest and busy people. Great place....
Young brother said, once you survive in Ashaiman, you can survive in any place in the world. He has never visited any major city in America hoods so he has no clue. Ashaiman is nothing compared to the dangers of the streets of America where just about every criminal is armed and ready to shoot. This place would be like going to church far as peacefulness goes for any black person from the inner city of any city in America.
Ashaiman communities such as Lebanon, Middle East, Jericho and Bethlehem derived their names from soldiers, who returned from peacekeeping duties in these countries..
Ohh thanks for sharing
@@JasmineAmaa Always welcome 🙏
Hi Jasy , love your contents, your hair is really popping, I enjoyed watching ✌️,tnx for carrying us along,
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Thx jaz. Love you 😍
Awesome content
WOW Jazz,this video is very informative .
Thanks Wendy x
My fav whats up? Republic Bank there you are in Ashaiman , straight from TnT....Wow! 2:28 ATM
Great tour guide, great tour and of course great Jasmine. I really did enjoy the tour and especially ya tour guide, he seemed so genuine and fun..... Keep the good work up.. I just subscibed.
Thanks Henry ❤️
Great content jazz..❤
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I am so glad that these friends are ethnically and religiously mixed. They may not have much but they are working and I see a better future for them.
Indeed 💜
A very good tour guide easy going and knowledgeable of his community
Yes indeed, so glad to have met him
thank you dear Jasmine
I TRULY ENJOY YOUR VLOGS.1 MAJOR REASON I WATCH IT SO MUCH. YOU INFORM.MAKES IT VERY INTERESTING AND REALISTIC 👏👏
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Awesome video 🙏🙏
Thanks
@ Jasmine hi Chica you look lovely.. This was so nice the gentleman was very well spoken and knew a lot it was nice of him too take time to explain everything to you also take you around.. Much blessings from 🇺🇸 New Jersey,..
Thanks Tasha, so happy to have met Derrick x
@@JasmineAmaa You welcome love yes he was so very nice much blessings💓
Very informative just shows that people are the same all over the world 🌎. Thank you Jasmine. But I kept looking at the tour guides legs!!! Nice lol
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👋🌹 INTERESTING CONTENT. 👍👌THANKS FOR SHARING.👍🙏💪💙🇬🇧🇬🇧
Nice tour guide
Beautiful!
Love it the good the bad and the ugly I love your videos always interesting keep shining you are so fine smh
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I like the video thank you
Loveee your videos hun 😘
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That’s me right there
This is Derrick 🔥❤️🙏
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You should have shown her Stoneboy's hood. Nice work though
The famous infamous legendary hood. Much Love
New environment Experience
Ama, I lived in ashaiman Lebanon for 3 years but then criminal activity was very serious, but now the place is developed and criminalities has minimize
Ohh yeah most people i met shared these sentiments
Good day Jasmine. We would love to see a link up with SOAI while he's in Ghana. We saw his vlogs with Wode Maya and naturally your channel came to mind. Stay blessed sis.
Id reach out 🥰
Now it’s hood vlogs, we gonna invite you to Nima, please try and come!!
That will b lovely x
Wow wow Ama thanks soo much 💓 💗 💕 for letting me my town Ashaiman, that's where I grow up and now I travel to America 🇺🇸 aww I miss Ashaiman 😆 🤣 😂 Ama you are the best 👌 👍 😍
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Greetings from Amsterdam Jasmine...i think you should show case Ashaiman to the world more often because Ashaiman is Ghana and Ghana is Ashaiman there is more to Ashaiman than you can think am Ashaiman and Ashaiman is me hope to take you around one day.
Jasmine, watching this vlog had me scared 😳 for you. This area reminds me of parts of Jamaica 🇯🇲. I hope you made it safely back home.
Ghana is generally a very safe country . There are no scary no-go places !!!
Ghana is a safe country. No scary places. Only hardworking people!
Hi Jasmine I would like to see you doing a video about Dome please.
You had a very beautiful young gentleman as a guide, he could certainly be a tour guide for that region. I see every place has different levels of house types (slum and otherwise) but the blessing is, is there growth? Babies, fruit, vegetation,...etc all blessings and growth ome adom aye!
I know every corner you are showing here. I have been there for 4 good years. But relocated to Kumasi now
This confusion has to be cleared up very well
That guy in the orange is right from your tour. The place in not planned, the building structures are everywhere. The place has to be planned well.
The place looks relatively clean though 👍🏽
I use to sell for my mom in Ashiaman. Eiiish memories, Zongo laka, Turuku etc, years back most of the manufacturing companies in Tema had a decent number of their work force commute from Ashiaman.
Yea it’s one of the best secondary schools in Ghana
Nice video , thanks for showing us the area, but I notice your mic was loud but your friends mic wasn’t loud enough…
Thanks Paul will pay attention to this next time
We have alot of countries in Ashaiman oo Switzerland, Washington and the rest,Jasmin I'm sure u would love to get to know all these places
I was born and bread in Ashaiman even thou say people had issues with the town but seriously at the rate at which Ashaiman has expanded is amazing and crime rate indeed has reduce... In Ghana there are criminals every where even East Legon. Criminals move from one destination to other and when crime happens that town is being name that's how Ashaiman got the name... But big ups Jasmine great works.... The building was built by the previous Govt the king 👑
Can u pls cover and tell us more about Atadeka,Zenu,katamaso
I love Derek ❤
Miss the hood😍
Kwame Nkrumah is real legend he started so many gud things but he was not allowed to finish hmmm!!!!
And on sundays you can get the cheapest thrift clothes and other things at the Ashaiman market
So true they had things as cheap as 50 pesewas
Awwnn thats my school 🥰❤️
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Reminds me of the rougher areas of Chicago but probably safer !
True!
Way safer! I live in NY and Ashiaman has nothing on U.S. crime areas. The so called criminals there can never stand against U.S. ghetto crimes! No high drug dealing, definitely no shootings(guns), no repeat frequent flyer prison visits, definitely nothing called gangs with gang wars! These are jobless youth with no prospects because no jobs opened in this new town. Just families that moved there and markets...really, no opportunities for the youth at all, and with all the schools they have there, no formal education, becos no motivation and empowerment from the parents either. Most of the families that settled and created this town are labourers that worked at the nearby Tema shipping port, and at the end of work day had a hard time travelling back so far away into Accra where they came from or even further. Anyway, like any place in the world, it's just that, because it started with families, having more kids, then gradually it was just homes with a whole lot of youth with nothing to do, thus, the devil is always busy for idle hands. Did u realize how hard it was for that group to say what they did for a living when she asked them? No companies there to employ them, so.....
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I avoid Ashiaman because there's way too much traffic. I swear the traffic goes back so far it chokes the Hospital Road in Tema.
Hi Ivy 🥰
Both car and pedestrian traffic is crazyy
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For over 20 years now, I left Ashaiman, nothing has changed. The same dirty, slummy areas. Sadly this two vote for particular political party, NDC and nothing has been done for them. So sad. We moved from Community 5 to live in ASHAIMAN new town for few years and we came back to Community 5. Crime was really high then. I remember being rubbed openly at knife point. Luckily, I didn't have anything serious on me and did not struggle with them, I would have been killed by now. It used to be very dangerous place but for 20 years now, I expect things to have changed.
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You’re taking a cheap and nasty pot shot at Ashaiman people , but what has their voting culture has got do with development of their town? Travel around Ghana and see where the gold, diamonds and cocoa , timber etc are taken from and see if there are what anybody would even call a road ? You’re are critical of the poor uneducated youth, but not the poor national public policies that created these slums around Ghana . This is the threat to national security, young people who have never had a regular job or the training to find a job . Go to the upper East or Upper west in Ghanan and see the storm brewing . Amen !
@@stanleyglover5534 Sir, whether I am talking nasty about Ashaiman or not, that's the obvious truth and I know some of y'all ain't going to accept the truth. Yes, the truth always hurt. Fortunately, I've lived there before and experienced it myself. Ashaiman has always being a notorious slum since whenever. Crime has always being in ascendancy, but I pray it changes one day. Why don't you channel your energy you just spent in responding to educate the people, that at least they could change their attitude small bi. Over 20 years and this city looks the same and you are happy with it? C'mon, bro. Being patriotic and die hard lover of Ashaiman is by helping change this status quo. Thanks a d sorry for hunting your feelings
@@themotivatortv I blame the various DCEs/MCEs for the poor state of affairs of Ashaiman and any big town in Ghana. Lots of them are VISIONLESS, don't have eyes for beauty etc. Ashaiman, Tema, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Accra metro etc all these big towns/cities have the capacity to generate their own money to run their affairs, and should be weaned off govt money
The MCE of Ashaiman if he were visionary, would consult private investors to have them build many multistorey indoor markets for his people (markets bring tremendous employment), replan Ashaiman, remove the shanty structures, build high rises to house people/businesses/students, dualize their roads etc etc. It's sad
Thanks a million Jas for the good work you do. You truly are A FOOT SOLDIER for the people. Derrick did a good job in showing you around. I will like to have his contact number. Keep on doing what you do BEST.
Derrick could be a designated tour guide if only he can be guided and helped to know that he ciuld make a living out of that! If Ashaiman could be marketed by these young men, on CZcams etc. To invite people to come and see their town with a mixture of ethnicities and remind people that, the world famous Tema harbour is right nearby, and it's that harbour that created the Ashiaman town! That's an idea..and I just thought of it as I started typing, why cant these young men think of that! Most of the youth are being very creative and selling their little villages, towns, cities, regions for that matter. They dont have any govt body in Ghana that's going to do that for them, so if they want the place to change, businesses to come in, they should do it themselves!
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Ashaiman woulda been my birthplace if work hadn't taken my parents to K'dua. But I do enjoy my time whenever I visit.
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When you asked your guide about the Ga names I’m not sure you got a complete answer. All of Greater Accra is Ga land. Same way other regions of Ghana are associated with various groups. The lands were sold by the various kings and chiefs. Therefore it does not mean that Gas are the predominant group on Ashaiman. In fact they are not by any means.
it is still a Ga township, he was mainly explaining the Ga names. there was a time when it was predominantly Ga people living there, until others moved there
bcos of port
I love the way they speak lol
When did you shoot this video? You came to my hood
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Hi sis hope all is well.when am in Ghana.I shop in ahaiman.
Oh cool
Ashaiman 4 life
I would love to go on food tour with you in Ghana Jasmine 🍚🍚🍤🍤🍤🍤🥘🥘
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