Where Are All the People?

In January of 2012 Emmanuel Akorli was invited by Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business to come to Indiana to be a part of their program.  Mission Resource has been involved with their GLOBASE program and worked with them in Ghana in 2011 and 2012.  One of the most interesting comments Emmanuel made upon his visit to Indiana was “where are all the people?”   

In Ghana as you look out a window or drive down the street, you literally see thousands of people walking, talking, and going about their business.  Here you rarely see anyone.  We are either in our cars or in our homes or businesses.  No one is relating with their neighbors or co-workers in a way that is similar to the way it is done in Ghana.  Years ago I heard that two of the greatest difference makers in how Americans relate happened when air-conditioning became common in our homes which brought people off their front porches and into their living rooms with the second cause of lesser amounts of interaction—the television.

Blessings,

David Ketchum