Word: mandment
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...governments move into the cool, white villas the colonial officials left behind, the continent is clearly slated for a series of strongman governments. No more pointed advice exists for the African politician than the pseudo-Biblical com mandment inscribed at the bottom of Kwame Nkrumah's statue, which stands outside the Ghana Parliament. "Seek ye first the political kingdom," it says, "and all other things shall be added unto...