Foli finds life even harder now that he has a wife and child to support. In his despair he is ready to commit suicide. Just in time, however, he accidentally comes across the will left by Mr Fields, who himself committed suicide. In it, Mr. Fields promises a handsome reward to anyone who finds it. Foli thus comes into $70,000. He begins to think that the best thing for him to do is return to Ghana and use the money to help his suffering fellow-citizens. To prepare himself for his return he enrolls for a leadership programme. Delali is at first very hostile to the idea of returning home, and the marriage is again under strain. She gets him to go with her on a shopping spree as a way of trying to tie him down to the USA. When relatives of his in London all suddenly die and he has to spend a lot of money on funeral expenses, she compels him to spend more money on her too. Suddenly their financial situation is once more delicate. Then Delali herself unexpectedly receives a huge sum of money: her one-time sponsor, the politician – now dead – paid sums into her account, and she has only just become aware of it. The money was originally Ghanaian public money, and had been obtained by the politician through corruption. Foli lectures his wife on the importance of putting it back into Ghana, and she comes round to his point of view. They therefore fly back to Ghana where they set up an agricultural business. Foli urges the youths he meets to stay at home and help to build the nation, instead of going abroad in the false hope of being able to enrich themselves. He employs many of them on his farm.” The learned trial judge did not find that the above summary copied the language of Woes. She said (at pp. 260-1 of the Record) that: “What the writer of the said Section A presents is an arrangement of the information and details of the expression of the Plaintiff’s ideas in 7

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