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...their country, renewing their democracy and securing fresh reason to hope. That rise and fall and rise again has given many Ghanaians - and many Africans - a more realistic understanding of what it will take to develop their continent's fragile fortunes than they had in the first flush of freedom. And it has left them with a deep appreciation of basic principles that others take for granted: stability, democracy, jobs. This is the story of one family - three generations of Ghanaians - who have experienced the struggles and triumphs that define Africa's first 50 years. In many ways, the Dehs...
...Kwame himself longed for freedom. "I knew independence was very important for this country," he told me. "We needed jobs and employment to come to Ghanaians, to black people. The top administrative level was taken by the British." It wasn't just the colonial authorities Kwame chafed under. Around the time of independence, his father and stepmother chose a girl for him to marry. "But I didn't like her. You know, we didn't love each other," he says. Kwame started wooing Theresa Afue, another girl in the village, instead. Within months they had married, eager to begin their...
...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 wars that followed independence in Portugal's colonies of Mozambique and Angola. "We had lots of fears. There was no freedom of speech," says Kwame, about the time of troubles. "You go about and you see the army. The economy was getting worse." By the late 1970s, Ghana was a mess: a drought had pushed up food prices, jobs had disappeared. "Bribery and corruption is all over the world, but where...
...Gaza is like a big prison, and we get our message across with rap music." At concerts, PR ignites a dervish-like frenzy among Palestinian teenagers. When they sing, "Just because we're Palestinians/ America and everyone suspects us of being terrorists/ But all we're asking for is freedom," the crowd erupts with the same raw energy you see in the Gaza showdowns between Palestinian and Israeli forces...
...grim assessment cited in the report comes from Brigadier James Everard, who led British troops in Basra until three months ago. "Freedom of speech, freedom of expression: it just hasn't quite worked out the way it was planned," he is quoted as saying. "They're just not prepared to debate. They tend to do things...