The activities that engaged the villagers' attention included keeping productive food-crop farms, organizing fishing expeditions, hunting, and cultivating cocoa farms.
It was customary that, aside from self-care, the family, the clan, the villagers and the community looked after the sick.
Most of the villagers agreed that the fewer the restrictions imposed, the better it was.
Ideally, villages had to be set up and run by the villagers themselves on a voluntary basis, without interference from outside and above.
People in the villages generally expressed a very low degree of trust in local political leaders' ability to work in the best interest of villagers.
The elderly villagers explain the onset of excessive dowry demands as caused by people becoming wealthier and wanting to secure better houses for their daughters.
But teachers, who generally live as foreigners in the village community, understand these moments as opportunities to engage in reciprocal obligations with the villagers.
Pressure was put on local elites and villagers to welcome migrants.
