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...even more disappointed by the insipid response of the Nigerian government. Abdulmutallab was radicalized in London and trained in Yemen, yet the U.S. government wants to subject Nigerians to humiliation at airports around the world. To the Nigerian government: Isn't it time you stood up for us? A.E. Akan, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madam Chancellor, You Look Marvelous! | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Wild | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...that there may be benefits to utilizing students as teaching resources. FROM WHENCE IT CAMEEkua K. Nkyekyer ’07 is the only TF this year to have taken a Harvard Swahili class before teaching one. Although she is originally from Ghana, Nkyekyer’s native language, Akan, didn’t give her a leg up while studying here. Nkyekyer started from scratch, gradually acquiring the textbook skills that made her capable to teach this year. The student became the TF. Yoda would be proud.Pillsbury, who is also a Crimson photographer, also learned Swahili as a second...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hakuna Matata! | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...wealth is stolen and controlled by the majority tribes, who look down on the people of that region as inferior. It is the oil that Nigeria values, not the people. What the Nigerian state does to the people of the Niger Delta is abhorrent and pathetic. Akanimo Akan Lagos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Niger Delta Insurgency | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

...Akan language of Ghana, akwaaba means welcome, and that is exactly what guests receive at the Akwaaba Mansion bed-and-breakfast in the heart of Brooklyn, N.Y., just a 20-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan. On a brownstone-lined street in the historic Stuyvesant Heights district, canopied by magnolia, beech and horse chestnut trees, sits an 18-room white Italianate mansion, dating to the 1860s, that Monique Greenwood and her husband Glenn Pogue bought and restored five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome Home: AKWAABA MANSION, BROOKLYN, N.Y. | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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