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Ghanaian women are also fond of high heels. But you need level grounds to walk well in them. In Ghana, many of the walkways are not tarred and it is rough even in the cities. The challenges to wearing such five finger shoes are great for woman in the homeland. Besides, since many of our women are "traditionally built" with heavy buttocks that they find difficult thrusting into trendy jeans, the pressures on their feet in high heels from their pneumatic bodies are enormous.
There is one way the Ghanaian woman gains by wearing high heels. Ghanaian men are, on the average, short. Just ask Benjamin Tawiah or take a look at our football players! Our women are even shorter! But they gain a lot in height when they wear high heels. Unfortunately for them, they meet another hurdle. Some Ghanaian men prevent their wives or partners from wearing high heels when they go out together because they don't want the woman to appear taller than the man in public!
Oh, by the way, for those readers who may be wondering if I don't have anything better to write about than a woman's five finger shoes or even those others who may want to ask if I can't find a better part of a lady's accoutrements to hide myself than in her five finger shoes, I have an answer. When you write about incendiary political issues which some readers, riding on their politically partisan inclinations, intentionally misread and invest with meanings that the writer didn't put there, it can be a huge relief to find solace in a woman's five finger shoes.
"Those shoes can give you the sensation of running barefoot, but they delay important feedback so that you might do more than you're really ready to do. When you're truly barefoot, blisters and other things will tell you when you've had enough for the day."
Not all information comes in the form of pain, discovered Hiromi Saito, 28, one of 16 participants at a beginner barefoot event at Yoyogi Park on Nov. 13. "I got an idea of my own form, and I noticed things I wouldn't normally have, such as the texture and temperature of the ground," she says.
It's within that heightened sensory state, says Yoshino, that the magic of five finger shoes running lies. "Think of the way we use our hands when we're cooking or stitching on a sewing machine. They move their best when there's a challenge. Our feet move the same way."
