The channel brings reviews, commentary, and information on the author's book -- Such were the Conditions: The Kahnplay Incident. It is a memoir with ground-level, front-row views of Africa's truncated development through corruption, coups, war, and geopolitics, and misguided donor conditionalities. The book is motivated by Africaâs poverty conundrum. It offers ground-level, front-row views of African development, as it navigates through, around, and over obstaclesâharrowing, overwhelming, and heart wrenchingâfaced by a young Ghanaian determined to fulfil the promise of independence. This fast-paced, elucidative book captivates the reader as it tells of the tragic loss of life during Liberiaâs coup, isolation in Kahnplayâs dungeons, a death sentence meted out by a military tribunal, desperate days of homelessness in the US, the schizophrenic world bribery and extortion impose upon business negotiations in Ghana, and the high risks for private development in Charles Taylorâs Liberia.