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Ashong's father, Emmanuel, grew up poor in Accra, speaking Ga, Akan, and the King's English. As a third year medical student, he married a young nurse of royal background. Her father was born to become the chief of the Larteh people but declined to be enstooled. Nonetheless, Stella Asiedu-Akrofi Ashong and her family retained the privileges and obligations of Ghanian royalty...
...Akan, representing a group of languages, proposed as the national language of Ghana, lingua franca in Ivory Coast, spoken by over three million people...
...Komla A. Gbedemah, 56, who was Nkrumah's Finance Minister until the Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means "Friday's Child" in the Akan language, and the voting was held on Friday. The soothsayers proved right...
Negro professors at Harvard now would be dramatic evidence to today's Negro students that they will have the opportunity after graduation to use to the fullest the abilities they are now developing. Words of promise for 25 years from now cannot have such power. Sally Akan 1G Nancy Curtis 4G Nancy Hicks 2G Martha Kingsbury 1G Judy Victor...
...bound senior, "the more I realized I didn't know." Adds Alan J. Stenger, a Michigan math major: "After a B.A. in math, you really don't have much except a solid background. It would be a shame not to use it." At Chicago, Sally Akan, who is headed for a Harvard M.A. in Chinese, remarks: "My interest lies in a field in which training at the bachelor's level is completely insufficient...