These are some of things you only begin to understand when you grow up.

If you recall that conversation I said I had with that worker, this was one of the things we discussed. People in Accra are kings and queens of appearances and will do anything to keep a certain perception about them up. They call it packaging. A lot of the girls are engaged a modernized form of hookup branded as relationships because they want to constantly be seen in certain spaces their own money and names can’t get the into. This place is honestly full of suffering big boys and girls, but until you speak to them, you won’t know.