A RM1.7bil ‘holy hole’


The long inactive construction site for Ghana’s national cathedral project in Accra. — Francis Kokoroko/The New York Times

THE walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are ageing plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years.

It frequently reverberates with singing – the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the cathedral’s half-finished foundations fill with rainwater.

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