Nduka odizor biography of george washington
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Talking Drums
The West African News Magazine
Telling the West African Story
by Elizabeth Ohene
"They are annoying but on a good day one can see the amusing part of their pompous prose and one can even play the part of the savage native for them so that they can keep up their illusions".Some of them are still innocents abroad in spite of their reputations at home as hard-nosed cynics that nobody can hoodwink.
— Elizabeth Ohene unscrambles the foreign correspondents' reporting of events in Third World countries.
Such foreign correspondents in Africa are usually irritating but you can forgive them. Their copies invariably tend to answer the type of questions that the earnest British or American citizen would ask a Chanaian, Nigerian or Ivorian citizen at a cocktail party in Oxford or Harvard. 'Hmm, Ghana that was a British colony wasn't it, no wonder you speak such fluent English, does everybody speak English in your country; oh how very clever".
They march into countries in Africa with mentalities only marginally different from the missionaries and explorers of years ago. Invariably they bring out excellent copy if they happen to be writing about starving children, shanty towns and shoeless teenage boys playing an animated game of football on a crowded an