Word: akyem
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...teach Gold Coast natives, who own more than 5,000 mi. of improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
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