27 SEPTEMBER 1997, page 25

An Odd Couple Indeed

. . . the Guardian deputy foreign editor and the Ghanaian politician, that is. IMAGINE the scene. The place is Ghana. It is August 1983. Amartey Kwei, convict- ed of the murder......

Mind Your Language

`I'VE got it!' I exclaimed at midnight, nudging my husband in the ribs. `Keep it till the morning,' he replied drowsily. By then he had forgotten about it. But I hadn't. My......