Word: agyeman
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...Idris Osei-Agyeman, 29, investing in Ghana was even more personal than for most African Americans because his father is Ghanaian. That side of Osei-Agyeman's family has worked as farmers for generations--a tradition broken only when his father emigrated to the U.S. to go to college on a track scholarship. Osei-Agyeman returned to the family last year, took out a 70-year land lease on 36 acres in Ghana's eastern region and converted it into a mango farm. "I wanted to go back on my own and get into farming, and when...
...Osei-Agyeman still lives in his native Chicago, where he works in real estate investment, but two to three times a year he makes a monthlong visit to Ghana. On each trip he is sure to take a few African-American friends. "African Americans are coming from a nation that most developing nations are trying to emulate," says Osei-Agyeman...
...muscular, nearly nude warriors in bikini-brief grass skirts performed the End of the Harvest dance. The most spectacular ceremony was the Ashanti durbar laid on in Kumasi before 35,000 people, including some 150 major and minor chiefs. Host for the ritual was the Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, King of Ashanti and the most important chief in all Ghana...
...cities and villages of Ghana and Nigeria, his name leaped forth from billboard, newspaper and radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle...
Tasseled Umbrella. Nkrumah has moved more cautiously, but just as effectively, against the nation's No. 1 chieftain, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, the Asantehene or King of the Ashanti. His rich cocoa-growing and gold-mining territory furnishes the bulk of Ghana's revenue, and in the days before independence his well-stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control...