Such were the Conditions: The Kahnplay Incident: A memoir with ground-level, front-row views of Africa's truncated development through coups, wa - Paperbackby Ronald Quist (Author) "Such were the Conditions: The Kahnplay Incident" is a richly packed memoir, motivated by Africa's poverty conundrum. It offers ground level, front row views of African development, as it navigates through, around, and over obstacles harrowing, overwhelming, and heart wrenching faced by a young Ghanaian determined to fulfil the promise of independence in the aftermath of truncated development: through war, coups, geopolitics,