Word: agona
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Willie Carrington, who accompanied Akainyah on the trip, runs Carrington & Carrington Ltd., a firm that specializes in connecting big business with minority executives. When Carrington arrived in the Ashanti region, the aristocrats liked him so much that they named him the Agona Nkosuohene--developmental chief--for the region. When he returned to Chicago, members of the local Ghanaian community began visiting Carrington regularly, instructing him on how to dress and conduct himself during state functions...
...mean, but he's good," said Cora Mae Basnight, who played an Indian in the first staging of the work and who has had the supporting role of Agona, an Indian maiden, off and on since 1957. All seven of her children have been in the show. "Even so," Cora Mae went on, "I feel sorry for all those young girls; he just tears 'em up. Us old ones let it roll off our backs...
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