Your Country is Fucked: Ghana

True Story...Africa really looks like this from space. Ironic that it's called the "Gold Coast", no?

Welcome to Ghana, a small sub-Saharan nation surrounded by the pillaging/raping/prostituting neighbors: Ivory Coast and Togo are but two. Ghana was part of the original slave trade to the New World. The Dutch and British especially would come for the strong, cheap labor to import back to New Crackerland across the Atlantic...the idea worked so well that, after virtually every nation had stopped importing slaves, the British just threw their hands up and decided to made Ghana "a protectorate"...thereby enslaving every single man, woman and child under the Imperial yoke.

When a white guy from Europe says "trust me", you're better off running.

Following a century and a half of European rule, the Ghanans broke free from the British (well, sorta'...they more slipped away with the 1950's collapse of the British Empire). Since then, they have been, more or less, a model of stability in an otherwise unstable part of the world. Best part is, Ghana has twice as much income as poorer African nations, meaning its GDP is worth a ball full of navel lint and some kool aid covered pennies (Ethiopia would totally lick those pennies, thank you very much). Still, Ghana has not been without its coups, strongmen and forced reliance upon global subsidization, making the nation not as fucked as others on the Continent, but still very very fucked in Western eyes.