Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995
How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Race and Culture: A World View
by Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 331 pp., $25.00
The town of Kumasi, where I grew up, is the capital of Ghana's Asante region, and its main commercial thoroughfare is called Kingsway Street. In the 1950s, if you wandered down it toward the railway yards at the center of town, the stores you passed sold processed foods, cloth, and household goods: and while there were always many Ghanaians, especially women, in the cloth trade, the other stores were largely owned by expatriates. First came Baboo's Bazaar, which sold imported foods and was run by the eponymous Mr. Baboo—a charming and courteous Indian—with the help of his growing family. Mr. Baboo was active in the Rotary and could always be counted on to make a contribution to the various charitable projects that are among the diversions of Kumasi's middle class. (I remember Mr. Baboo mostly because he always had a good stock of sweets and because he was always smiling.)
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