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Excellent read so far (I'm about a quarter way through). I think I've found a minor error: > To the Ivory Coast’s west, Ghana went from one of the best African
by merek 3y ago
Excellent read so far (I'm about a quarter way through). I think I've found a minor error:
> To the Ivory Coast’s west, Ghana went from one of the best African economies to one of the worst, culminating in the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in 1968. Farther west, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria...
These countries are East of Ivory Coast.
- prmph 3y agoAnd Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966, not 1968.
- vlabakje90 3y agoThere are other minor errors here and there. He mentions that it is 'literally impossible' to get a tourist visa other than by coming through the airport in Abidjan. Yet, in 2023 I did get one outside of Côte d'Ivoir, at the Ivorian consulate in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- midasuni 3y agoTechnically If you go west, and continue to go west past Ghana, from Ivory Coast you will get to Nigeria.
- Kiro 3y agoAround the globe twice? No need to go through Ghana. It will save you one circumnavigation.
- midasuni 3y agoSure, but if you define Ghana as being to the west and then travel further west you will get to nigeria Go west c. 30Mm and you get to Ghana, a total of c. 60Mm and you get to nigeria.