April 1961 - Yes! They're Work Crazy! - The people
April 1961 - Yes! They're Work Crazy! - The people of Essuakyir built this magnificent bridge and saved their people a long and tiring detour round the river. If the bridge had been built by contractors it would have cost a bout 9, 000, but the villagers brought the cost down to 1, 700 by using their own labour. It was a great achievement. The do-it-yourself craze has hit Ghana's villages. Our country folk are building their own bridges, laying their own roads, setting up their own Post Offices. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
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