From a sun-baked stone stage, a drag performer named Appolonia Cruz surveyed a small but receptive crowd, mostly clustered under a lone shade tree.
For Africa, a continent of 600 million people staging an event of this magnitude for the first time in its history, Ghana is now a lone star.
One, "Dancer" from 1885-90, depicts a lone dancer on a stage as she is about to take her bow.
In a tiny venue, with about 50 people standing in front of a small stage, a lone guitarist, Dirk Serries (whose former nom de plume was vidnaObmana) produced an inexorable tsunami of guitar drones.
Dong Seong-geun, a blind masseur, staged a lone protest in front of the Constitutional Court recently.
A lone supporter of Hosni Mubarak staged a one-woman protest outside the Cairo police academy from early morning, clutching a poster of the former president.
A nineteen-year-old girl, Yoten Tso, staged a lone protest outside the county police station in Kardze, an area of Tibet under such tight control that it was described as a "war zone" by a recent visitor.
The crowd – led bizarrely at one stage by a lone bagpiper – chased and beat up TV crews and press photographers.
He took the stage with a lone feather affixed to his bald head, like a vestigial mohawk.
Thirty dancers moving in synchronized patterns to re-enact a fable from ancient China may be followed on stage by a lone musician playing the erhu, a two-stringed instrument that dates back 3,500 years.
