So in a way the thing was new. Yet the stories that were sometimes heard about it were not stories of something young and vigorous, but the same old … - Ayi Kwei Armah

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So in a way the thing was new. Yet the stories that were sometimes heard about it were not stories of something young and vigorous, but the same old stories of money changing hands and throats getting moistened and palms getting greased. Only this time if the old stories aroused any anger, there was nowhere for it to go. The sons of the nation were now in charge, after all. How completely the new thing took after the old.