I forgot, when Ashanti’s get mad they don’t beat in each other, they threaten to insult one another, which is why I only ever recall one curse word in their language (“tibonkoso” which was like fool or idiot, pretty mild.

When they REALLY wanna take off the gloves they use our familiar English curse words, but not very well grin

Three years, never saw a fistfight, not even around 300 teenagers. Regionally a guy was hacked in the back of a neck by a machete and another guy beaten to death (died later ruptured spleen, severity not apparent at the time), but even Ghana had organized crime.


"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744