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Thinking about Evolution

There is at least one sense in which Nige­ria and the US are very sim­i­lar: hav­ing a remark­ably high pro­por­tion of reli­gious peo­ple – or as the present fad expres­sion goes, peo­ple that “have a per­sonal rela­tion­ship with God” – and of course also hav­ing a high pro­por­tion of cre­ation­ists, which fol­lows, so it seems,

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

The mes­sage, In 1985, around 85,000 peo­ple vis­ited the trop­i­cal coun­try; that num­ber has now sky­rock­eted to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a pro­mo­tional ini­tia­tive with the aim of attract­ing 1 mil­lion annual vis­i­tors by the end of 2012.