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...must have thought about [race] somewhat--my mother's English, my father Ghanian. Somebody must have mentioned it," he says. "But I don't remember thinking about it a great deal before I came to this country. And I remember being brought up to think that what people said about it was generally such rubbish...
...scholar who deflates conventional notions of racial, ethnic and cultural categorizations, Appiah's' life story appropriately puts just those notions into question. Born in London, he spent his childhood in the West African nation of Ghana. His mother is English, his father a Ghanian lawyer who was influential in his country's independence movement. Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, the King of the Asante tribe, is his uncle, and his maternal grandparents are a titled couple from Gloucestershire...
...joined the Harvard African StudentsAssociation and served as treasurer and president.He introduced his roommates to Ghanian culturaldelights such as kenke, a hot, spicy fishsauce which they ate with their fingers off anewspaper spread on the common room floor. He sangfolk songs and performed the gumbut dancein the annual Cultural Rhythms show. he wrote forthe African Technology Review...
Confronted by the Prince, Socialist Workers' Party Member Kim Gordon, a British Ghanian, explained that the demonstration was against police harassment. "Couldn't you come together and discuss it?" Charles asked. To the police at his elbow, he said, "What about it?" Before leaving, he accepted a protest leaflet and pleaded, "See if you can sort things out. You cannot go around like this." The intervention drew fire. "I don't care who he is," snapped the head of the police union. "He should not have said anything...
...like none of these: it resembles more closely the 1953 wedding of another Margaret known as Peggy, the daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. His Peggy wed Joseph Appiah, son of an Ashanti chief and now a legal adviser to the Ghanian government. Britain took it without hysteria...