My partner and I went out for our Friday night drink at our usual spot - a new hotel on Spintex Road. Last night the live band was playing hi life because there was a promotion for some new beer. If you have never heard hi life then you don't know what you are missing as the beat is infectious and it is impossible not to want to get up and dance.
What struck us was the difference between Ghana and the UK as, unless things have changed in the last 30 years since, here it was the men who were dancing!
I remember my dancing days and then the women danced in a group around their handbags and the men propped up the bar until they were drunk enough to join the women. Last night most of the men there seemed to be supporting the promotion in some way and there wasn't a drink in sight on their table and yet they were up enjoying the beat and dancing together in a totally unself-conscious way and thoroughly enjoying the music.
British men take note!!
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