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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 11, 1983
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WEST AFRICA: FIRST CASUALTY OF THE OIL BUST
According to a top Saudi
Arabian official, the collapse of OPEC and its mandated world oil price
structure could drive the world into "chaos." If that does happen perhaps a
good example of the type of economic-social disruption to be expected,
especially in the Third World, is already occurring in West Africa.
January 17, the government of Nigeria abruptly announced it was ordering
its approximately two million foreign workers--about half of them from
nearby Ghana--out of the country. The alien workers--attracted years ago
to Nigeria during that country's now flattened-out oil boorn--were given a
mere two weeks to leave the country.
Trying to meet the January 31
deadline, trucks and buses piled high with people and cargo were backed up
for long.distances along the old "slave route" road stretching the 300-rnile
distance from Nigeria across the two sliver countries of Benin and Togo
into Ghana. Others fled on dangerously overcrowded ships. Some outcasts
died on the way--they either starved, were crushed to death, or drowned.
Repatriated earnings of the Ghanaian workers in Nigeria had been vital to
Ghana's economy, one of the poorest in the world. Not only will this money
not be coming in, but Ghana will be extremely hard pressed to feed over
900,000 more people. For Nigeria, the oil boorn--which had provided up to
90% of its . foreign earnings--is over.
The country's foreign exchange
reserves, with which it pays for imports, are rapidly drying up. Food will
be a problem for Nigeria's over 80 million people, since agriculture has