May 2001 Vol.4, No. 4

Contents Doctor's Firsthand Account of South African AIDS Crisis   by Cecil E. Maranville French Intellectuals See Germany as Potential Threat    by Joel Meeker Reversal of Fortune for Two African Nations    by Melvin Rhodes To Tell the Truth    by Darris McNeely In Brief...World News Review    by Cecil E. Maranville, Ken Martin and Darris McNeely This is the Way...What's on the Front Page of Your Mind?    by Robin Webber Reversal of Fortune for Two African Countries Once one of the most unstable of African countries, Ghana is now a model of stability and success. what turned Ghana around in the past 20 years? What lessons are there in its success story for the other struggling African nations? by Melvin Rhodes The English lady sitting next to me on the plane was speaking eloquently about her just completed fourth visit to Ghana. The British Airways stewardess and I were listening and agreeing with what was said. Then the lady made an innocent comment that led to my reminiscing on the seven years my wife and I lived in the West African country, seven years that began almost a quarter of a century ago. "There's nowhere else you can go in West Africa," said the English visitor. "Ghana is the only stable country." Two decades ago, exactly the opposite was true. Ghana at that time was in the midst of a 20-year period of chaos and instability that seemed to be without end. When my wife, Diane, and I first arrived there in May 1978, the country was led by an incompetent military government that had presided over severe shortages of just about everything and an inflation rate of roughly 600 percent. Six weeks after our arrival, a palace coup removed the head of state from power and replaced him with another military figure. A few months later, a bloody revolution overthrew one military government and replaced it with another, led by junior officers in the air force. Anger was so great that all Ghana's previous presidents were publicly executed, a bloody act of revolutionary finality that was to inspire similar events elsewhere in Africa. Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0105/fortune.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "Reversal of Fortune for Two African Countries" Other Articles by Melvin Rhodes Zimbabwe: _World News Review April/May 2000 _Food Insecurity in a Hungry World _A Study in Contrasts _Pray for the Peace of Zimbabwe _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - May/Jun 2000 _Africa: What's Behind the Zimbabwe Land Crisis? _Could We Lose the War on Terror? _What's Behind the Growing Food Crisis? Ghana: _Intelligence Failure -- From Listening to the Wrong People? _Ghana's Election Signifies Progress for Africa _Ghana at 50 _How to Live on $25 a Month _She Used to Be Our Queen, Too... _Dictatorships: Why Are They So Common? _The Biblical Solution for Africa's Biggest Crisis _"Waiting on the World to Change" Africa: _Still a Troubled and Dangerous World _10 Million Orphans - an AIDS Holocaust in Africa _World News Review March 2000 _The Little Country That Could _World News Review March/April 2001 _Fifty Years of the African Queen _Money Won't Solve These Problems _World News Review Dec 2002 _African AIDS Epidemic: Made Worse by Political Correctness _'Mr. Smith' Takes on Washington _Democracy Is More Than a Word _African Debt--Is Wiping the Slate Clean a Good Idea? _Is Africa Dying Before Our Eyes? _The World Is Watching Nigerian Elections _Vacuum of Leadership Grips Kenya _Africa: Still the Heart of Darkness? _10 Million AIDS Orphans: A Disaster for Africa _A Firsthand Account: Africa's Deadly AIDS Crisis _New African Union Founded to Copy EU Success _Corruption: A Way of Life for Much of the World _Will Democracy Work in the Middle East? _How One of Today's 'Bad Guys' Ended the Scourge of Slavery _A World in Need of Hope _AIDS Can Be Stopped -- Now! _Africa's AIDS Crisis: A Doctor's Firsthand Account Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site