As a way of helping his class improve their writing skills, the class teacher of eight-year-old Kofi Mensah, a year three primary school boy growing up at Kookookrom, a little village in Ghana, asked her class to write out the line 'Misfortune rarely comes alone' ten times. Was it a way of preparing Kofi for his day of multiple poor luck? It could be the case for not long after the writing exercise; the little school boy lived...