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Slavery's long effects on Africa
By Will Ross

BBC News, Ghana
 

Africa missed out on much more than the millions taken by the slavers.

 

The Ghanaian historian and lawyer, Mohamed Shaibu Abdulai, says Africa's loss of millions of the strongest men and women during the slave trade is one reason for this underdevelopment.

"The slave trade actually prevented the coming into being of an agrarian revolution in Ghana, and likewise an industrial revolution. Because before you can industrialise you need to have stable agricultural production. So slavery has a very long effect." ..... More


 

 

 

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John Atta-Mills and the spirit of democracy

Commentary, Jan 5, Ghanadot - Politically, for long Ghanaians have been in some kind of indistinct bereavement for genuine democratic practices they sense they have lost somewhere – what was authentically Ghanaian traditional value where consensus and participation drive politics, a sacred Ghanaian stuff. ...
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Mills transitional team holds preparatory meeting

Accra, Jan. 4, Ghanadot/GNA - The Transitional Team, named by President-Elect Prof. John Atta Mills on Sunday began a preparatory meeting in Accra to discuss the smooth transition of power from the outgoing President John Agyekum Kufuor Administration to the incoming Government.
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Accra, Jan. 3,Ghanadot/ GNA – Professor John Evans Atta Mills of National Democratic Congress (NDC) was at exactly 1109 hours on Saturday January 3, 2008 declared the President-Elect of the Republic of Ghana......More

  

  Mills: I accept the challenge; I'll be president for all

Accra, Jan. 3, Ghanadot/GNA – The President-Elect, Prof. John Evans Ata Mills on Saturday said he had accepted the challenge to be the President and gave the assurance that he would be the President for all Ghanaians.....More 
   
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