The corrupt autocrat that Nkrumah was (despite his fancy Oxford et al. education or perhaps because of it?) he still had the sense to give absolute priority to education and send Ghanians abroad to study. Ghana now reaps the benefits of the seeds planted on those days: most of the professors here that I have met are graduates from elite east coast colleges and Universities. Two observations:
1) If the current student exodus in Nepal continues, I see Nepal becoming more like Ghana in 20 years than, say, Pakistan or Bangladesh in terms of the elites.
2) The fact that so many well-educated Ghanians have come back to Ghana (to teach, mostly, but also for public positions) is surprising and would be a good model to emulate.
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