European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              United nations has done much help emerging african nations with economic social problems. Here a . Rural Hospital in Congo is visited by , children. Beauty contests have come of Africa too As Here a Here miss Ghana was picked. By ton Ghana also added women s builders brigades. Sunday a flu 18, 1941 Ries predate colonialism. African his tory and mythology Are studded with stories of vast tribal wars. Corruption presents a More Subtle problem in the new nations but not too Subtle when practice in the african manner. Dash is a common term on the continent s West coast where business firms keep a dash Box for payoffs and Hospital patients often pay a Penny dash Money for a Bedpan. On the East coast it is called Bak  but whatever the name the game remains the same payoffs for political and economic  have openly demanded and received thousands of dollars for building permits currency favo Sand preferential treatment. The late nigerian finance minister. Chief Festus Kotie ebon murdered in the first military coup of 1966, was known As festering  Eboh was dragged from his offi Cial residence at Dawn on Jan. 15. 1966,he offered his captors $2.8 million for his  Eboh s death the military government reportedly retrieved More than that amount from the finance minister numbered accounts in Swiss Banks. Few of the old guard african nationalist politicians who led their nations to Independence remain to help them through the chaotic period that now i following Freedom from White Rule. One of the Best known Kwame Nkru Mah emerged from James fort prison in Accra to Lead the Gold coast Colon to Independence from Britain As the new nation of Ghana in 1957. Ghana was hailed As the rising Black Star of the  Nkrumah is an exile in Conakry the capital of Guinea a Dis credited dictator whose Homeland has put a $140,000 Price on his head dead or  itself is a fallen Star trying to extricate itself from the financial bankruptcy of Nkrumah s nine year  left behind some benevolent bequests the highest per capita in come in tropical Africa. $230 compulsory elementary education with free Tui Tion and texts construction of the Volta dam and vastly improved commune  he also left the erosion of per the stars and stripes Page 15