Thursday, 1 August 2013

Ghana Must Go

Ghana Must Go!
(Which sounds like a play on this blog’s title)
In 1983, the familiar blue and red checked zipped bags, made in China, and sold widely across Europe, were branded by Nigerians, “Ghana Must Go,” bags.
The Nigerian government, as part of an economic ping ponging of migrants between the two countries, ordered the expulsion “en masse” of all Ghanaians.
So hurried was the process, that the outward bound had to cram their worldly goods into the cheap, strong, easily available, woven plastic bags.

Guileless, the moniker continues today in Ghana.


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