New Year has been re-christened ‘Cross-Over Night’  and on massive billboards all over the country for months leading up to it, numerous conferences are advertised where powerful pastors from all over the world come together in front of thousands of worshippers to ring in the new year with a religious bent. 

It’s now more difficult to find a big New Year’s party or corporate sponsored non-religious events as almost everyone is in church, more so than at Christmas, making sure they ‘cross over’ to the next year with all the luck possible.

FLEXIBLE TIME KEEPING

Sometimes it drives you mad, other times it makes you laugh, it just depends on what sort of mood you are in when a Ghanaian plays fast and loose with time.

A Ghanaian will say am almost there’ more often means they are nowhere nearby and you should expect a wait of at least half an hour.

When given a meeting time, always add half an hour or an hour.

THE SWEAR GESTURE

Twiaka, roughly translated, it means ‘return to sender’  and is used along with a gesture that involves taking a thumb and circling it around one’s head before flicking the imaginary circle away and is used as a response when someone has ill will towards you, or says something negative. 

A serious spiritual rebuke, this is the Ghanaian’s way of swearing with added karmic retribution piled on top.