Relationship Problems.

Years ago, I met this lady who I liked so much, and before long, we kind of…….abi you know!
During our years of courtship I got to know her dad was my cousin. This was not close enough however to prevent a marriage. It was after the marriage that we realized what we had gotten ourselves into.
First, her dad was my cousin, which meant that I’d married my niece. Then again, my cousin was my father in law. Where does that leave me? I am my brother-in-law!
Now if my wife was my niece, I qualified to be her uncle. In that case I was my uncle as well.
Things got more complicated when our first boy arrived.
He was my son and yet my niece’s son. So my son was my grandson. My father-in-law was not just his grandpa, but his great grand father as well.
Now between him and his mum, more complications were obvious. His mum was his dad’s niece and so mother and son were cousins. Wow! But it didn’t end there. He was a great grandson to his mother father and so his mother was his grandmother. The grandson of my wife, sorry my niece, obviously is my great grandson, so my son then is my………….

How Ghanaian are Ghanaian websites?

In the last post ( or so) some mention was made of the e zwich system. More information on the system is available at http://e-zwich.com

But this is not the import of this post for now. I was rather hoping the website for such a Ghanaian innovation would be on a domain like e-zwich.com.gh - never mind if e-zwich sounds more German than Ghanaian.
This pricked me to take a casual look at a few 'Ghanaian sites' and it didn't take me long to notice quite a few. The majority of the sites representing Ghana in one way or the other do not reflect so in their domain names. For examples the sites mentioned below, I thought, should have .gh at their end;

www.gbcghana.com
www.ghanafa.org
www.tamaletoday.com
www.agricbank.com
www.prempeh.or
www.opokuwareschool.org
www.ghanaweb.com

Is it extremely difficult to purchase Ghanaian domains or what? So far it appears only the 'big organisations' have managed to get .gh in their domains.

Can someone educate me on this?

In other countries even small scale businesses have "national ID" in their domain names. What is the thing preventing us from doing same.
Once again; Can someone educate me on this?

Please post a response if you have one

E-Switch or E-zwich?

I couldn't help noticing that once again Ghana has adapted a heroic attempt at digitising the economy by the introduction of the e-zwich smart card system. A system which bears semblance of the widely used (not in Ghana though) Credit Card system except that identification is by use of biometric features of the user for identification.
I believe this is especially laudable given that Internet Fraud is on the rise in the sub region. Biometric identification perhaps presents a better fraud-proof alternative.

However, the other side of the coin seems to indicate that the user will have to be physically present at the point of business (I hope to be corrected on this one) to transact business and this I thought reduces the 'e' part of the whole initiative.

One thing that, makes me think, will hamper the exponential growth of e-zwich users in Ghana is the commission taken by merchants and banks for transactions made using the system. Although this is not new to the system, it is new to Ghana. How many people dont return goods to the shelf, after learning at the counter, that the price tag excludes tax? Yet this is widely practiced in other jurisdictions.

It's just matter of time before the real merits and demerits of the concept will emerge but for now, maybe observation is what a lot of the population is will be doing.

For now, I'm keen on seeing what will happen.