Perhaps the Holy Bible will help to better illustrate the point I am attempting to make here.
First of all, Ghana and for that matter Africa must be proud that there are voters of the continent whose creativity is beyond imagination. Basically, by the standards of Africa, Ghana isn't really all that poor. The subsequent thirty or so years were the common struggle against the business incompetence of the numerous rulers, including the nearly standard army coup. Things eventually got sorted out in the 1990's, and the economy is now growing again, giving the inhabitants approximately two times the 2 times the revenue per head that is common in Africa.
In fact, for a lot of the area's history there have truly only been 2 exports : slaves ( The Ashanti Dominion was a prime source for the Arab slavers long before whites reached the area ), and gold : indeed, the country still boasts one of the biggest mines and gold companies on the planet, again named after the traditional kingdom, Ashanti.
The over an hundred standard horn blowers who carried the sparkling elephant tusks colourfully ornamented, was the highest point of the creativity of the originators who conceptualised the rite. Unless they are some synthetic plastic improvisation, I'd imagine that there would no more be elephants in the Bole State Park at Bole in the Northern area or in other forest reserved in Ghana. Horns are used to pronounce the take off an event.
Accra
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