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...better educated: the illiterate African who can recite epic poetry and oral history for days without pause, or the literate American who never reads anything but comics and the McDonald’s menu? Residents of many so-called “developing” nations such as Nigeria consistently score higher on polls of happiness, contentedness, and optimism than citizens of the U.S., Canada, and even the Scandanavian socialist wonderlands...
...Nestlé also fights HIV/AIDS as the founding corporate sponsor of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Africa Health Initiative 2010. Our contribution focused initially on an educational project of young people in Nigeria seeking to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. The educational materials have been jointly developed with the WHO. The program is successful: It has now expanded to 14 countries on three continents. The project also provided the seed for an African business coalition which has developed to spread it even further...
...people in the Volta region were underwhelmed by the idea of independence. Fearing that Ghana's bigger tribes would discriminate against them, many Voltans wanted independence to come in stages, or even the chance to secede altogether. Tribalism, which would later rear its ugly head in places such as Nigeria and Rwanda, was already shaping postcolonial Africa...
...Togo in 1963, there were at least 200 attempts to seize power in Africa over the following four decades, 80 or so successful. Bitter civil wars erupted, some of them tribal struggles for natural resources, some of them fueled by foreign powers. In the 1967-70 civil war in Nigeria, Ghana's regional neighbor, a million died. By the 1970s, Africa had become one of the hottest fronts in the cold war. Both superpowers propped up dictators and forced their economic policies onto their struggling clients, both stoked corruption and graft, and both fueled internal struggles such as the hellish...
...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 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...