I know it is still an impoverished country but compared to other african countries it seems much more civilized and developed.
But even more than that it seems like it is much more culturally prominent than other african countries. I never hear about Ghana in casual conversation but I feel like I hear about South Africa more regularly. It has had major historical figures, movies have been set there, people want to travel there. It just seems like it is more out there than the rest of Africa.
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One part might be bias since it is one of the few countries in Africa with a significant English speaking population so you’ll get more news from there.
The other part is that it was one of the few African nations in the Age of African colonialism that Europeans tried to settle with people rather than just exploit and so got a major head start in development because of it.
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