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ACCRA, Ghana — According to a select group of hormonal Ghanaian men, I am the promised land of sex and green cards that will unfurl upon the mere uttering of "ni hao," rumored to be the universal mating call in Asia. The most popular pickup line I have received is essentially a long string of southeastern Asian countries, question mark. (Korea, for whatever reason, never makes the list.) The grammatical fragment is often accompanied by a look of wide-eyed wonder and teeth slightly bared in what I imagine to be curious lust...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: 100 Percent of Both | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...heavily into the anthropology and African and African American studies departments. It is worth pausing and asking why the histories of non-white regions are still largely relegated to the arena of ethnic studies when French and German are as much categories of ethnicity as are Indian, Egyptian, or Ghanaian...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Let the Subaltern Speak | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...eventuality,” and that he wants to be part of a collaborative effort to bring about change in Zimbabwe. While Mrema has ruled out running for office, Delle sees himself working in the social, political and economic sectors of Ghanaian life—like his father and grandfather...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Learning To Aid a Continent | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Sometimes it's the quietest voice that speaks the loudest. The quiet voice I heard in 1988 was that of a young woman from Ghana. The morning my wife Rosalynn and I visited the woman's village of Denchira, near the Ghanaian capital of Accra, she sat timidly on a bench amid her neighbors, who had assembled to greet us. She appeared to be in excruciating pain, and it looked as if she were cradling a baby in her right arm. As I approached, I was shocked to see that she was not holding a baby but her grossly swollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Village Woman's Legacy | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...that its cultural importance needs to be considered. Although female circumcision is internationally condemned as a human rights violation, some argue that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage. The film “Asylum,” released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father’s attempts to force her to marry an older man and undergo female circumcision. Andoh fled her home country and was detained in the United States for a year before receiving asylum. The discussion following the film mainly focused on whether...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Asylum' Screening Sparks Debate | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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