Word: ghana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later, Tammy brings me any hamburger and fries but keeps Anton waiting. I'm a little embarrassed by the situation, a passing metaphor for our respective home continents: he is hungry, I am not. I have food, he does not. Quist, born in Great Britain, is a citizen of Ghana, a country along the west coast of Africa...
Quist speaks with a thick, richly layered voice--a voice resonant with the melodic rhythm of Jamaica, the bass note of Ghana, the clipped, soproper pronunciation of the BBC, and clangy Americanisms picked up during four years of college. He can be loud when he want. At the Union dining hall, friends used to ask him to get the attention of someone at the far end of the hall, which he would do with a shout. He is of medium height, muscled so that people ask what sport he plays, thinking maybe soccer, maybe track, maybe boxing. He wears shorts...
...Quist did not expect tograduate from Harvard nine years later; he did notplan on going to college at all. "I was a naughtyboy," he says. "I was almost shot one time."Walking home with a friend after curfew on thestreets of Accra (the capital of Ghana), he waspassing the police headquarters and decided totake a closer look at a bronze plaque he had neverstudied before...
...years later, he was accepted into medicalschool, which in Ghana does not require anundergraduate degree. Higher education is free inGhana but demands two years of public service, andQuist spent one year after high school teachingclassical physics to eighth graders...
...America, student protestors get up andchant carry signs, you know, 'Stop the Gulf War.'Back home in Ghana, students burn cars. Theyprotest anything: cutbacks in scholarship money orgovernment repression...