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...battered and overloaded Toyota van waiting at the border between Nigeria and neighboring Benin was the unintentionally ironic sign NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT. The statement was all too true for the score of Ghanaians packed inside, and for as many as 800,000 of their countrymen who had suddenly been ordered to leave Nigeria. By truck, boat and plane, they streamed out of the country last week, carrying what possessions they could. Many of them were hungry and sick. All of them were hurrying to meet the Feb. 1 deadline for their expulsion. Along the way, at least 34 participants...
...pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next to Communist slogans...
There are other problems, and they are evident in the four nations chosen for the Pope's second trip. Two, N geria and Gabon, suffer from the rapid urbanization and social disruption that have followed oil-fueled economic booms. In Benin and Equatorial Guinea, Catholic churches are trying to gain back ground lost during years of dictatorial rule...
...tripled its African audience in the past decade, when it began improving news coverage of the continent and scheduling more entertainment. Many young Africans love American popular music, and the Voice's "African Sound" is so popular that a V.O.A. correspondent once got sprung from a jail in Benin by mentioning to the police chief that he was a personal friend of Host Georges Collinet. The network's Special English Broadcasts, often called the slow news because the announcer reads at the rate of nine lines to a minute (the average rate is 12 or 13), helps people...
...death of a footloose Brazilian named Francisco Felix de Souza, who flourished as a slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...