She was lucky they didn't eat her!!!
Back in the days Ghana was one of the most non-violent places in Black Africa. Certainly nothing at all like the most dangerous places in the US.
Go anywhere in Ghana and because you were an obvious foreigner, you'd have a free meal and a roof, hospitality even from folks who didn't have a pot to pee in. That's the way it was.
Back then before cell phones you'd be assigned to your village or whatever and they wouldn't expect to see you or hear from you for at least three months, at which time you were expected to show up in the Peace Corps office for your quarterly 5cc of gamma globulin against Hepatitis.
When the military coup went down New Years '80/'81, Peace Corps called all of our families back in the US to say that we had been located and were safe at our sites. This was a crock, they had no way of knowing. One guy had flown home to California for Christmas without telling 'em and fielded that call himself, in his parent's house.
So thirty or so young Americans released into the country for two or three years at a time, no reliable way of contacting them, no way they could summon help in an emergency.... maybe accountable to appear once every three months ... and most times nothing ever happened, certainly not at the hands of violent criminals.
Sadly, today of course they give out satellite cell phones where they can track your movements just in case. Sucks :o(
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