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Table tennis enthusiast David B. Adelman ’04 met the Ghanaian champ after seeing him in action at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). At first, Adelman says, he thought the stocky older gentleman was just watching the action, but he soon realized “that guy is amazing!” Kyerematen says he likes to surprise unknowing observers at the MAC who see only “an older guy with a belly” and underestimate his sprightliness. He thanks ping-pong for keeping him young and wishes to play as long...
DIED. ESTHER AFUA OCLOO, 83, Ghanaian entrepreneur who tirelessly promoted women's economic development; in Accra. As the first chairwoman of Women's World Banking, which she helped found in 1979, Ocloo pioneered the practice of microlending, or financing tiny businesses with successive loans as small...
...troupe of Ghanaian drummers and dancers that performed at the Spee may have brought a taste of Africa to Mt. Auburn Street, but the way Tia K. Jurist ’04 sucked down a fifth of Jack and started dry-humping a pile of jackets that she thought was Ricard D. Nitrell ’03-’04 in the club’s front room was truly All-American. Nitrell said, “Tia seemed to be really getting frisky with those coats. It’s too bad she passed out before we could...
...Twerrapon Traditionals are playing the Spee. This does not mean the Maryland basketball team is going to school a final club. The Twerrapon Traditionals are not collegiate ballers but members of a Ghanaian drum and dance troupe. Their connection to the Spee was made last summer when Spee members Ian D. Broadwater ’02, John A. Roberts ’02 and Allen P. Tsai ’03 were working on AIDS education with the World Education Program in Ghana. According to Roberts, after seeing the Traditionals’ show, the three...
...this is not his life, although every word and movement reflect something of himself. Chartey grew up in Brooklyn, the oldest son of a Ghanaian father and a Panamanian mother. Storytelling is both a way for Chartey to carry on a Ghanaian tradition and to escape. “I love it,” Chartey says. “But I do lots of things. It’s an odd thing to be a celebrity for telling a folk tale...