Asante-descended Ghanaians, in particular successful businessmen and women, were the brunt of the so-called Rawlings Revolution; they were the symbols of all that was economically wrong in Ghana and needed to be thoroughly eliminated from dominance in the national marketplace. The choice was literally between a rock and a hard place. And in the tragicomic case of the Rawlings-led junta of the Provisional National Defense Council, the choice was the rag-tag Kwesi Botchwey-led economic hocus-pocus canoe of the suicidally destined Bretton Woods-cooked Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). I mean, who really looks forward to the comeback of a President who could not steadily and perennially turn the lights on for the longest four-and-half years of postcolonial Ghanaian history? *Visit my blog at: KwameOkoampaAhoofeJrBy Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhDEnglish Department, SUNY-NassauGarden City, New YorkJuly 17, 2020E-mail: [email protected]

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