Word: ghanaian
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...people can build such warmth among themselves so swiftly." It's a statement (by another London-based writer originally from someplace else) Afolabi has chosen as the epigraph for Goodbye Lucille - an epigraph that highlights the heartening capacity for connection in unexpected places. "I have Polish friends and Ghanaian friends and Indian friends," says Afolabi, "friends across the spectrum. I read the other day that the largest ethnic group in London was mixed-race children. I was pretty gobsmacked, and encouraged as well. I hope that's the future...
...South Africa, which has long advocated a softly-softly approach to Mugabe, finally issued something akin to a reprimand, calling on all parties to respect the rule of law. (In private, the language is understood to have been more forceful.) The current chairman of the African Union, the Ghanaian President John Kufuor, called Zimbabwe "embarrassing." These rebukes are mild, but compared to past silence or support for Mugabe, they represent a substantial shift...
...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 of the money worked; much of it did not. The crisis was exacerbated by Nigeria's decision to expel thousands of Ghanaian guest workers who arrived home hungry and jobless. "You would go to the forest and search for cassava," remembers Suzzy. "Whatever you could find...
...book he is reading for school, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi, which transplants Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to Africa. He talks about his school and having to go to mass every day. He pronounces Catholic Cad-lick in his wonderful, treacle-thick Ghanaian English. There is a small table in the corner with a stove sitting on it. Pots and pans stack up under chairs that line the walls and on the shelves of a bureau that also holds a tiny color television. There is a small refrigerator, the padding in its door showing through...
...Annan's selection a decade ago holds any clues, it could be months--tense, diplomatically bruising months--before his successor is chosen. The Ghanaian won after his predecessor, Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali, met stiff U.S. opposition to a second term. France and the U.S. battled ferociously over a replacement, enduring weeks of acrimony before Paris cried uncle and agreed to Annan less than three weeks before his predecessor's term was due to end. Diplomats, it seems, work best on deadline...