If your spouse dies and you happen to be not very popular with your in-laws, then better get resigned to the fact that while you mourn the loss of your partner, you will be accused of having killed him or her.

BBC: African viewpoint: Ghanaians fight over the dead

During his lifetime he managed to publish seven novels and do some documentary work for British TV (you can see him in one of them as a Fat Man on a Beach, first broadcast shortly after Johnson killed himself).

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