Ghana
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Ghana is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 04, 2025 and October 28, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “In Ghana, for example, acquiring a building permit can take 170 days”; “Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal … within a three hour flight radius”. It most often appears alongside San Francisco, 80,000 Hours, abundance liberalism.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 04, 2025
- Last seen: October 28, 2025
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
60: Asterisk - Africa Needs A YIMBY Movement. I was surprised by the title, because I always hear that African cities are growing very rapidly. But the article makes its case well: African cities have dysfunctional planning, relegating most of the growth to either the “informal sector” (ie thrown-together slums that could be banned at any moment) or rural land on the outskirts of existing cities. “In Ghana, for example, acquiring a building permit can take 170 days — and in practice, developers say it often takes four to five years. Unsurprisingly, 76% of development in Ghana is informal.”
Inline links: Africa Needs A YIMBY Movement
A financial hub for the region (”Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal . . . they’re all within a three hour flight radius of there”)