Ghana: The Missing Dialogue

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The "Revolution" which broiled in Ghana so hot in 1979, and then again, in 1981, must have simmered for many years, thereafter. What people might hear, usually from what might have been only rumours was often passed on as "firsthand information." Any attempt to trail such purported "firsthand infos" led frequently into cul-de-sacs. In effect, they must have been rumours then, and many have stayed as such, until today. But, an awful lot must have happened, and like in all revolutions, there must have been loss of lives. It would lose meaning, when quantified.

An example: A young man returning from Ghana to his base in Frankfurt/Main in what used then to be West Germany, narrated to his enthusiastic compatriots listening to him in the cab from the airport: "I saw the skeleton of a man washed to the roadside at Dzorwulu (a suburb of Accra). His pair of Jeans trousers was almost intact," he said interestedly. When asked how he knew it was a man, his answer was, "Men usually wear Jeans trousers." He was happy to leave it a "satisfying answer".

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