Such were the Conditions

Such were the Conditions: The Kahnplay Incident is a richly packed memoir motivated by Africa's poverty conundrum. It offers ground-level front-row views of African development as it navigates through around and over obstacles-harrowing overwhelming and heart wrenching-faced by a young Ghanaian determined to fulfil the promise of independence in the aftermath of truncated development: through war coups geopolitics corruption and misguided donor conditionalities. This fast-paced elucidative book captivates the reader as it tells of the tragic loss of life during Liberia's coup the isolation in Kahnplay's dungeons a death sentence meted out by a military tribunal desperate days of homelessness in the US the schizophrenic world bribery and extortion impose upon business negotiations in Ghana and the high risks for private development in Charles Taylor's Liberia.