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Billboards, youth, unemployment and superstition in Mamfe-Akuap / Ayesu, Ebenezer   Journal Article
Ayesu, Ebenezer Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract On a sunny day in May 1983 a section of the youth of Mamfe-Akuapem in south-eastern Ghana - reeking heavily of alcohol and marijuana, armed with machetes and pick-axes and angrily singing war songs, drumming and dancing - went to the residence of Nana Ama Ansaa Sasraku III, their queen mother. Their mission was very simple. They were to inform her of their plans to demolish the billboard which welcomed motorists and visitors on their arrival in the town. According to them, the billboard was inhabited by an evil spirit responsible for the general incidence of unemployment and the absence of development in the town.
Key Words Remittances  Families  Traditional  Opportunities  Queenmother  Widespread 
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Lethal liabilities: the human costs of debt and capital flight / Gillespie, Peter   Journal Article
Gillespie, Peter Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract In the mid-1980s I had the opportunity to work with the National Federation of Sugar Workers, the union of sugar plantation workers in the Philippines. It was a desperate period in Negros Occidental, the main sugar-producing island. Sugar prices had fallen worldwide. The end of a preferential trade agreement with the USA had resulted in a dramatic decline of sugar exports to the American market. The economy of Negros had collapsed. Starvation among workers and their families was setting in .
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