The last time I checked, the United Kingdom was contemplating on cutting down its few bank holidays in a year—because they calculated that, each holiday cost the UK economy £2.3bn and scrapping them would boost annual output by £19bn.
But not far from the United Kingdom lies Africa, a continent engulfed in absolute poverty and diseases—lack of infrastructure and more recently, lack of focus to the extent that some countries are given a public holiday for winning a football competition.
It’s 2015 and it seems we are not still getting our act together—at the end of the year, we will go and beg those with fewer holidays for money to be able to eat.
Ivory Coast announced a public holiday on Monday to celebrate its dramatic win over Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Yeah, today is a damn holiday in Ivory Coast…
Last night’s victory gave the Ivorians their second title, in a repeat of the 1992 final. Reportedly, the celebrations in Abidjan went on late into the night on Sunday—and the State is well happy about their achievements on the pitch to the extent that they’ve been given a public holiday to the detriment of their economy, whatever the lost may be..
Remember this is a country where around a quarter of the country’s people live on less than 1.25 dollars a day.
Of course, they have to celebrate but must there be a public holiday for this? And perhaps, Ghana would have done the same—we are all in the same boat.
This post was published on February 9, 2015 1:24 PM
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