In recent times, much political capital has been made of the perceived underdevelopment of the northern sector of the country. And whenever the issue has been duly raised, the facile tendency has been for the most vociferous critics to point to the supposedly depressing figure of the “Kaya-Yo,” the woman porter, almost as if to suggest that honestly working for one’s livelihood were tabooed, particularly since the overwhelming majority of these “Kaya-Ye,” or women porters, are commonly believed to be of northern Ghanaian extraction.
Source: GhanaWeb
