Good to Be An African | Ivory Coast Celebrates Africa Cup Win With A Public Holiday
The last time I checked, the United Kingdom was contemplating on cutting down its few bank holidays in a year—because they calculated that, each holiday cost the UK economy £2.3bn and scrapping them would boost annual output by £19bn.
But not far from the United Kingdom lies Africa, a continent engulfed in absolute poverty and diseases—lack of infrastructure and more recently, lack of focus to the extent that some countries are given a public holiday for winning a football competition.
It’s 2015 and it seems we are not still getting our act together—at the end of the year, we will go and beg those with fewer holidays for money to be able to eat.
Ivory Coast announced a public holiday on Monday to celebrate its dramatic win over Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Yeah, today is a damn holiday in Ivory Coast…
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