A basilica for Africa? (Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro) (Books and Arts)

The Economist (US) | August 5, 1989 | Copyright

A basilica for Africa?

WHEN St Paul's was completed in London 300 years ago, the gross national product of Britain worked out at about $720 a head in today's purchasing power. As Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, by some measures the world's largest Christian church, nears completion in the Ivory Coast, the GNP per head of that West African country is almost exactly the same. There the similarity ends. Sir Christopher Wren was not nagged by foreigners saying that the money ought to be used instead to buy vittles for the peasantry. Mr Pierre Fakhoury, an Ivory ...

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