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...sheis not the only one. Elizabeth iEmmyi Hancock i00, a former Miss Massachusetts, also committed herself to the modeling industry. A veteran of TV commercials, Emmy received even more hot offers after capturing her pageant title. Beginning to get her portfolio together, Ashanti A.W. Decker i02 is breaking into the world of stick-thin women, Diet Cokes and haute couture. Trying her hand at photo shoots and runway shows for the first time, Ashanti is learning what it takes to be like Naomi, Cindy and Giselle...
...Most models accidentally stumble onto their opportunities. Ashanti was simply strolling down Mt. Auburn Street, heading back to Dunster from the Yard, when a car pulled up next to her. iI was just walking down the street and some guy stopped me,i she says. iAt first, I was like, eWhat the hell?ii But the man told her she should get in touch with his fiance, a modeling agency director, and Ashanti figured it could be legitoand it was. The Organization, a new Boston agency owned and operated by young black people, now has Ashanti striking poses in photo...
Rawlings chose Jonah in 1982 as deputy managing director of Ashanti, then owned 55% by the government and 45% by London's Lonrho Corp. "I didn't know him," says Jonah. "He just reached out for the highest-ranking Ghanaian." In 1986 Jonah rose to the top job, becoming, according to him, the only black African ceo of a multinational company. "The obstacle to there being more like me on this continent relates to one thing," says Jonah. "Ownership. If Rawlings had not taken a personal interest in the mining sector, the level of prejudice would have kept me underground...
Under Jonah, Ghana has learned the art, rare in Africa, of managing its natural resources effectively. Ashanti has led the country's gold production to record highs. Floating public shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 1994, the government sold off 30% of its interest. Then Jonah went shopping, acquiring mining interests and prospecting rights in 15 other African states. Instead of confirming that any multinational company involving foreign owners will only exploit African labor and steal Africa's natural resources for the benefit of shareholders overseas, Rawlings and Jonah have turned Ashanti into a model for made...
Lacking detailed knowledge of precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya...