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Article: For post-colonial Africa, hopes deferred; Ghana celebrates its 50th year of independence this week, the first of many such anniversaries.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 6, 2007
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Byline: Scott BaldaufRob CrillyTristan McConnell
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA; NAIROBI, KENYA; AND ACCRA, GHANA -- When Ghana begins celebrations this week for its 50th year of independence - the first of a wave of African countries to throw off colonial rule in the 1950s and '60s - there will be brave speeches, feasts, free concerts, and plenty of the national colors of red, yellow, and green.
There will also be mutters of disappointment that one of Africa's most promising countries, which gained independence from Britain on March 6, 1957, hasn't achieved more. For many Africans, the lack of post-colonial progress is brought home by the fact that Ghana ...