Word: accra
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...hold no brief for Mittal, the tone of the Europeans in this whole affair is decidedly racist. Let us not forget that "new" India has a civilization several centuries older than "old" Europe's. A little competition seems to bring out the worst in some people! Vandana Joshi Accra, Ghana...
...hold no brief for Mittal, the tone of the Europeans in this whole affair is decidedly racist. Let us not forget that "new" India has a civilization several centuries older than "old" Europe's. A little competition seems to bring out the worst in some people! Vandana Joshi Accra, Ghana...
...competence, not tribal lines, religion or other factors. I'm looking forward to an Africa in which the majority of members of parliament belong to parties that are in opposition to the country's leader. Then we can expect meaningful and healthy discussions before policies are implemented. Theophilus Quayefio Accra Much of what has gone wrong in Africa since independence owes to an institutional approach to government. When the British were decolonizing in the late 1950s, they set up representative institutions broadly modeled on those at Westminster. The assumption was that democratic institutions that worked in one context would automatically...
...explains, in a way that does. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat dispatched to London's High Commission by the first post-independence government, which was unceremoniously displaced by a coup in 1966, Eshun was born in London while his father was a political prisoner in Ghana's capital, Accra. On his father's release, Eshun, his mother and three siblings returned to Ghana where they stayed until 1974, when his father took a second posting to London. Yet another coup changed everything, leaving them permanently stranded in England. While studying politics and history at the London School of Economics...
This summer, after a stint as a trip leader for Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica, Safo traveled to Accra, Ghana, to conduct field research. Hoping to discover how the Ghanian government can improve its public health campaign, Safo sifted through documents, lived with a host family and worked in a health clinic...