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...celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union flag was lowered and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last the battle has ended. Ghana, our beloved country, is free forever." In Fodome, a small village in the eastern Volta region of the new nation, Kwame...
Today Ghana is democratic, and its economy is growing. Yet Suzzy and Gershon still struggle. After being forced to retire from the bank, Gershon opened a small office offering secretarial services. But his computer broke last year, and he rarely gets any business. To make ends meet, Suzzy buys food at Accra's central market and then resells it around her neighborhood. The family is perpetually behind on its $16-a-month rent, and when I visited last August, the power in the house had been switched off after a meter reader said the meter had been installed illegally...
...poor were living on the same planet as we were." After earning a doctorate at University College London in medical history, he joined the Monitor Group, a management consultancy in Cambridge, Mass. "There's a dearth of management skills in nonprofits," he says, explaining that choice. When some colleagues broke away to focus on economic development in underdeveloped regions, he signed on. During a visit, he learned that every one of his African clients was deeply affected by health crises like aids and tuberculosis. "I realized health care there had to get fixed before these economies had a chance," says...
...followed her love of chemistry to a Ph.D. from Howard University. But Procter & Gamble began to pursue her, and after 18 months, she gave in. Under then ceo John Pepper's mentorship, Reid hopped within the consumer-products giant, rising ever higher in title. But after 10 years, she broke off and started Global Lead Management Consulting. She likens her decision to leave P&G to a hermit crab deserting its shell to seek a better one. "I was fueled by fear and driven by faith," she says. "I'm scared of drowning, and that's why I scuba dive...
Oscar Wilde was dying - and broke. the declining writer was taken in by the proprietor of the Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, who tried to make him comfortable, plied him with Courvoisier and tolerated his snowballing bill. But Wilde still didn't spare his room's decor; he wryly observed that "my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." The wallpaper won that battle - Wilde died a month later of meningitis, on Nov. 30, 1900 - but it didn...