Updated: 24/06/2011 14:17 | By Simon Busch, MSN Travel editor
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It’s easy enough to be offended in your own country by intrusive tourists snapping your photo without permission. On other occasions, you might be that intrusive tourist yourself. But the offence can go much further in certain African countries, such as in rural Ghana, where people might fear (it makes a certain sense) that by photographing them you are stealing their soul.

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