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                                        <h2>Kathryn Cave (Ghana) – Accra: IBM’s New Rome?</h2>
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                                                        <span>Posted by Kathryn Cave </span>
                                                        <span>Company IDG Connect</span>
                                                        <span class="">04/24/2013</span>
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                                                                </p><p>"The sick die here because they can't sleep - it costs a 
lot merely to sleep in this city! That's why everyone's sick: carts 
clattering through the winding streets, curses hurled at some herd 
standing still in the middle of the road." This could describe a modern 
African city, but in fact it comes from the satirist Juvenal in the 
early second century... and is about the city of Rome.</p>
<p>This is not how people picture Rome; the benchmark of a beautiful 
city. Yet the cliché that Rome was not built in a day holds true. The 
Coliseum was built about 30 years before Juvenal wrote his satire and 
the Pantheon around 20 years later. Chronic sleeplessness was caused by 
building supplies transported at night. But like many modern cities in 
Africa, Rome was in the necessary state of chaos it took to create all 
those monumental buildings, bath houses, sewage systems and aqueducts. 
Perhaps comparisons could be made with Ghana's capital Accra?</p><p></p><p>Read on</p><p><a href="http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/889/kathryn-cave-ghana-accra-ibm-s-new-rome">http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/889/kathryn-cave-ghana-accra-ibm-s-new-rome</a></p>
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