Word: accra
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When midnight at last arrived on March 6, 1957, church bells sounded across Accra. The crowds, who had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union Flag was lowered, and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last...
...sprightly for his age. When I first met him in April last year, he was wearing loose-fitting gold-colored trousers, a gold shirt and a small gold skullcap all made from the same embroidered fabric. He welcomed me into his modest rented home on the eastern edge of Accra, pumping my hand with the energy and strength of a man 20 years younger. The inside walls of his living room were painted electric blue, and a gold vase of plastic flowers sat on the coffee table. There was a small television in the corner, and a telephone that mewed...
...army. The economy was getting worse." By the late 1970s, Ghana was a mess: a drought had pushed up food prices, jobs had disappeared. "Bribery and corruption is all over the world, but where it is too glaring it kills the economy," says Kwame, who moved his family to Accra and opened a small construction company. The hopes of independence had vanished...
...time of Ghana's first coup. She remembers those early years with fondness. "Life then was easy because my father worked," she told me as we sat outside her two-room breeze-block house in Lapaz, a poor neighborhood of dirt roads and street hustlers in northwestern Accra. "Everything was O.K." Suzzy, who is now 46, stayed behind with her grandparents in Fodome when her parents moved to Accra. The extended African family has always been a welcome insurance policy when times get tough...
Delta, which is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy and is being pursued by US Airways, is expanding overseas too. It has announced 50 new international routes in the past year, including New York City to Accra, Ghana, and in May 2007 it will become the only U.S. carrier with a nonstop flight to the United Arab Emirates, offering an Atlanta-to-Dubai route. Dubai is a rapidly growing global business hub and playground, and it's home to expanding U.S. government and military press operations that cater to Arab media--all but ensuring that Delta can fill seats...