1.0Mathematical 7https://mathematical7.com/m7rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="wDcAKeSvVe"><a href="https://mathematical7.com/m7/freetown-day-4-curtains-drawn/">Freetown day 4 – Curtains drawn</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://mathematical7.com/m7/freetown-day-4-curtains-drawn/embed/#?secret=wDcAKeSvVe" width="600" height="338" title="“Freetown day 4 – Curtains drawn” — Mathematical 7" data-secret="wDcAKeSvVe" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Freetown-Curtains.jpg1080720I must complete my Freetown diary. I left it hanging like clothing on a line. DAY 4. I play tennis again. I play two sets this time instead of the usual one. I am following my own prescription of exercising daily and unfailingly.  The match is much more competitive than on all the previous days, and my backhand slice still does the damage. I win again for the third day in a row. Aliyu has become my friend and 'customer' on the court. He admits again that he does not get to play against hotel guests with good enough tennis to improve his own game. I give him a good game always, and still pay him for it, can you believe it? Every time we play, all expenses considered, I spend about 150,000 Leones. I can't wrap my head around such whopping sums of money. The figures leave me in a daze. 150,000 Leones sounds like a fortune, yet it is probably equivalent to only 20 Dollars, or so! It reminds me of Ghana in the 1970s and early 1980s. The Ghanaian Cede depreciated so much that 10 Dollars converted for thousands of Cedes. A hotel room may cost a million Cedes, or something that ridiculous.  Ghana survived, no thanks to the political mop-up of human lives (former political leaders) that took place under Jerry Rawlings, and the emergence of new genuine patriotic leaders in the country (the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads) and a Ghanaian elite that was determined to do what's right and put their country back on track of Dr Kwame Nkrumah' s vision of a Ghana spearheading the formation of a powerful political, economic and cultural African Union. This will make the continent strong and united enough to pursue a proper infrastructural development program, connect every part of the continent, create the biggest market in the world, establish a continental integration program, and enable the united continent to compete with the rest of the world on a level playing field.  It was a grand plan that was aborted by a combination of narrow-minded, ignorant, greedy leaders as well as puppets of some imperialists and colonial masters. Ghana has since reversed the worst period in its history by converting the moments of its greatest challenge to moments of its greatest triumph. It is, until today, still healing.