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...awkwardly, like a jewel-encrusted bear. Three times he fired his flintlock into the air, and was answered by the volleys of 400 muskets. Then he lumbered across the field, his mouth filled with green leaves, symbolizing his identification with the earth, to greet Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and the other official visitors...
...white minorities, but had ruled out direct participation in violent solutions. Continuing to display his low profile, Rogers had listened quietly and attentively to Black African leaders, who seemed impressed with his receptivity to ideas. That receptivity was nicely illustrated in Ghana. During talks with Prime Minister Kofi Busia, Rogers was asked for a $15 million aid loan. The request was granted immediately...
...move began in December, after the government of Prime Minister Kofi Busia announced that all aliens who lacked residence permits would be expelled from Ghana within two weeks. Few of the aliens could produce official papers, and fewer still took the warning seriously. They had heard the same threat before, but official identification had never been required in practice. When the Interior Ministry announced that police would actually begin to flush out illegal residents, it was clear that this time the government was serious. By then, few had time to apply for permits-or had the confidence that they would...
Flimsy Excuse. Busia's policy eventually may uproot all but 10% of Ghana's 2,500,000 aliens. The action may antagonize his neighbors, especially the Nigerians. But at home, where 600,000 Ghanaians are unemployed, the move has already proved popular...
Defending the mass expulsion, Busia charged that 90% of Ghana's past and present prison population was made up of aliens. It seemed a flimsy excuse for one of the greatest forced population movements in black African history. In numbers, if not in poignancy, it exceeds two recent forced moves. One was the flight of 150,000 Watutsi from Rwanda in the early 1960s, when the tall, proud tribesmen were hunted down and slaughtered by rival Bahutus. The other was the exodus of 21,000 Asians from Kenya over the past two years...