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...NIGERIA (Br.) Pop.: 42,000,000. Size: 356,669 sq. mi. Literacy: 24%. School attendance: * 55%. College graduates: ** over 5,000. Christians: 20%. Five universities, plus widespread adult literacy classes. Together with Ghana has more college graduates than all other black African states combined. Witchcraft, female circumcision still common in rural areas...
...GHANA (Br.) Pop.: 6,700,000. Size: 92,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 25%. School enrollment: 600,000. College graduates: 4,500. Christians: 28%. Most people practice old animist religions, but violent rites largely gone. Some 5,000 Ghanaians studying in West, reflecting increased college attendance in African nations...
...SIERRA LEONE (Br.) Pop.: 2,600,000. Size: 27,924 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 450. Christians: 30%. Capital city, Freetown, boasts University College, affiliated with Britain's Durham University since 1876. Literacy below 5% in hinterland, where pagan rituals common...
Different Stories. After her mother's arrest, giddy, publicity-eager Sylvia Brühne spilled an eerie story to police and press. Vera, she said, had only pretended her willingness to relinquish the estate...
With her elfin daughter Sylvia, Vera Brühne was a familiar and whispered-about figure in Munich. An elegant, well born, still icily attractive woman of 52, she loved expensive clothes, fashionable parties, the best nightspots. She also had some peculiar tastes; once she planned to hide in a Renaissance chest in her flat and watch Sylvia seduce a friend's 14-year-old son. Lurking in her background was a burly construction worker named Johann Ferbach, 49, a wartime deserter from the Wehrmacht who met Vera during an air raid in 1944 and remained with her through...