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...elections that brought the Busia government to power three years later. Last week the army moved again. Three days after the end of Pat Nixon's official visit, and two days after Busia had flown to London for treatment of an eye ailment, the first brigade of the Ghanaian army moved out of its barracks in Accra, overthrew the government and jailed the former leaders in a bloodless revolt...
...traveling road show, which last week wound up a resoundingly successful eight-day, 10,000-mile, jet-propelled good-will tour of the West African nations of Liberia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Mrs. Nixon so endeared herself to Africans that she won the ultimate tribal accolade of the Ghanaian chieftains, who told her she had cemented a friendship that "not even a lion could destroy...
...Mexico has some 5,000 Mexican congregations at work evangelizing their own areas. Though outsiders frequently come equipped with better technical skills, only rarely can they do a better job of evangelizing. One recent exception occurred in Ghana, where there are at least 50 distinct languages. Black evangelists from Ghanaian towns could not talk to the rural, up-country Chokosis without noticeable hauteur. But a white United Church of Christ missionary, Alfred Krass, learned Chokosis and converted hundreds...
...cannot write her own name, but can get a $560,000 letter of credit whenever she needs one. In Accra, the mammies have been wooed and feared by politicians since independence, and no government has managed to tax them effectively. "They can't read or write," says one Ghanaian journalist, "but they can damn well count...
...main stumbling block for women in Africa," says a Ghanaian professor, "is the adaptation of customary law to modern society. The tension is over how and why old customs should be obeyed." Many tribes still practice clitoridotomy, or female circumcision, as part of the initiation into adulthood. A few tribes stitch together the labia of girls at puberty and unstitch them only after marriage. Tribal inheritance systems can leave a wife with little or nothing when her husband dies. A bride price ranging from about $40 to as much as $4,000 is still exacted from a prospective bridegroom...