At least on paper, every week next year has already been carefully choreographed. Nelson Mandela, it is hoped, will make a speech. A military tattoo is promised, as well as a football match between Ghana's "Black Stars" and England, to "demonstrate the new relationship of cultured civility" between the "former colonial master and the colonised". Even Oprah Winfrey may beam her television chat show from the slave castle of Elmina. So it must be big: the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence from Britain.
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