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...triumph in the midst of harsh circumstances.” The purpose of the event, according to Ellen T. Yiadom ‘06, coordinator and current scholar, was “to share these interesting and inspiring stories with Harvard and the surrounding community.” The Ghanaian-born Yiadom came to the United States at age seven and settled in Chicago. Now a Lowell House resident, she is set to graduate with a government degree next month. MIT student Delbert A. Green II, who raised $50,000 while in high school to study kidney stones, spoke about...
...ECOMOG troops on the ground had advanced behind their air and artillery attacks. We were walking past a small airport called Spriggs Payne, held that morning by Taylor's rebels, when we suddenly discovered ourselves, with our N.P.F.L. bodyguard, behind ECOMOG lines. A group of Guinean and Ghanaian soldiers ordered us to accompany them to their base camp just west of Spriggs Payne. "Look what we've got!" shouted one. "Taylor's writers -- and we got us a rebel!" As more ECOMOG soldiers gathered, the scene turned ugly. The soldiers began to push us toward the rear of the camp...
...soldiers disarmed the N.P.F.L. guard and stripped him to his underpants and socks. They tied his hands behind his back, threw him to the ground and began kicking him unmercifully. The assault was interrupted by a barrage of N.P.F.L. gunfire nearby. The unit commander, a Ghanaian captain, said accusingly, "You see? You've brought us an ambush...
...world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative. Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water issues, In Your Hands, screened last year: "This festival will encourage more young Ghanaian filmmakers to make environmental films. This festival could really have an impact." And once the schoolkids take off their eclipse-viewing glasses, it surely will. www.effaccra.org
...Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water issues, In Your Hands, screened last year: "This festival will encourage more young Ghanaian filmmakers to make environmental films. This festival could really have an impact." And once the schoolkids take off their eclipse-viewing glasses, it surely will. www.effaccra.org