Word: drought
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...hottest fronts in the cold war. "We had lots of fears. There was no freedom of speech," says Kwame, about the time of troubles. "You go about, and you see the 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...
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...years to regularly compete at the venue. The 104-year-old stadium, which was recently lined with FieldTurf and given permanent lights, has not hosted a team from the pros since the NFL’s Boston Patriots played there in 1970. If not for the recent upgrades, the drought probably would have continued, Director of Athletic Communications Charles V. Sullivan said. “I think [the upgrades] played a huge role,” Sullivan said. “We wouldn’t have even entertained the idea on a grass field, because that would certainly come...
...independence in Portugal's colonies of Mozambique and Angola. "We had lots of fears. There was no freedom of speech," says Kwame, about the time of troubles. "You go about and you see the 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...
...aged just 19, Suzzy married Gershon Aka, a bank clerk 12 years her senior. The first few years of married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children - son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23 - but the drought and hunger were tightening their grip. Ghana never experienced anything as bad as the famines that choked Ethiopia in the early 1970s or the mid-1980s, but the nation hurt all the same. As they would elsewhere, aid groups poured millions of dollars into plans for development. Some...