Originally Posted by B747-437B

Had a chat with the Emirates airport manager in Accra today and she advises that they just crossed 500 Skywards Golds with mailing addresses in Ghana. There are also almost 3000 Skywards Silver members in Ghana.

Many other regular passengers on the Accra flights are domiciled abroad but resident in Ghana (I fit this profile - my Skywards address is in India but I live in Ghana). She estimates another 500 Skywards Gold among these passengers primarily from India, China and Australia. Traffic between China and Ghana has grown over 650% in the last 5 years alone.

As I've said before, it is not uncommon to see 100+ Golds on an Accra flight.