The Ghana Express: How the West Turns Deportation into a Global Frequent-Flyer Program
Accra’s Kotoka International Airport has, of late, become the involuntary terminus for a very particular kind of frequent-flyer program: the modern deportation. While the arrivals board flashes the usual banalities—“Dubai, 14:30, On Time”—it neglects to list the bonus routes pioneered by Washington, London, Berlin, and even Stockholm: red-eye specials with no in-flight duty-free, plastic-cuffed passengers,…