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Naomi Okine washes her pot in a poor neighborhood in Accra, Ghana, Monday, March 5, 2007. Fifty years on, battered by political repression, military dictatorship and economic collapse that has bedeviled the entire continent, Ghana's hopes are diminished, even after seeing it's first peaceful and democratic changeover of government in 2000. The West African nation's Golden Jubilee on Tuesday is prompting some sober reflection on why Africa has failed to translate its dreams, and its bounty of mineral and agricultural resources, into wealth

Naomi Okine washes her pot in a poor neighborhood in Accra, Ghana, Monday, March 5, 2007. Fifty years on, battered by political repression, military dictatorship and economic collapse that has bedeviled the entire continent, Ghana's hopes are diminished, even after seeing it's first peaceful and democratic changeover of government in 2000. The West African nation's Golden Jubilee on Tuesday is prompting some sober reflection on why Africa has failed to translate its dreams, and its bounty of mineral and agricultural resources, into wealth