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...surprise, and what should be applauded, is a group of respected leaders - African and non-African alike - standing up and stating that quite so boldly. The non-award this year will make future prizes more valuable, more weighty. "It's a decision in the right direction," Kwaku Danso-Boafo, Ghana's ambassador to Britain, told TIME after the announcement. "They're saying that African leaders have improved, but that they have to do more. This stick-and-carrot approach is good." Expect more future non-awards. If a prize like this is to be serious, it's inevitable...
...don’t know who plans these ironies, but they are very sad and very cruel,” said Nana Twum Danso ’94, who was to have visited Wamba in Africa on the day of his memorial service...
...Danso concentrated mostly on her happy memories of Wamba, with whom she shared a passion for music and African culture...
...Danso elicited the only laugh of the service when she said, “He was one of the smartest people I have ever met, and yet he wasn’t a geek—there are a lot of geeks at Harvard...
...gets up there and treats Africa as one political entity, and it's not," said Letitia Abu-Danso, an employee of the Christian Science Monitor and conference participant...