Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A P.S. on Ghana@50

Salamatu Abukare, 55, will witness for the first time this week the lavishness that African leaders usually reserve for their own. She will watch agog as a fleet of 50 Mercedes, 50 BMWs and 30 Jaguars, costing about £3 million, ferry the continent’s elite to a huge party to celebrate Ghana’s 50th anniversary of independence — an event that was regarded as heralding the end of British colonialism.She will then sit back and watch as the sky is lit up by a fireworks and laser display.

Mrs Abukare lives with her husband and four children in a wooden shack with a corrugated iron roof in the heart of Sodom and Gomorrah — the name given by its residents to the stinking, sprawling suburb of Agbogbloshi on the edge of the shabby capital, Accra.


Can't claim to be the author of the above, but if you would like to read the full article see the Timesonline site (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1475437.ece).

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