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...Suzzy married Gershon Aka, a bank clerk 12 years her senior. The first few years of married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children - son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23 - but the drought and hunger were tightening their grip. Ghana never experienced anything as bad as the famines that choked Ethiopia in the early 1970s or the mid-1980s, but the nation hurt all the same. As they would elsewhere, aid groups poured millions of dollars into plans for development. Some of the money worked; much...
...Sherley, who is African-American, informed the administration last week that he would end his hunger strike, despite neither of his demands having been...
...professor who had begun a hunger strike after the university denied him tenure officially ended that strike last Friday, saying his protest had garnered sufficient attention...
Despite the end of his hunger strike, Sherley wrote that his “demands are still on the table...
...course Sherley never allowed the hunger to become too unbearable: He was ingesting vitamins, drinking water, and taking electrolyte supplements—essentially, he was on an extreme sort of diet. Quite honestly, he could stand to lose the weight. At 245 pounds and 5 feet 8 inches, his body mass index is, according to several hasty online calculations, about 37.2—far above the healthy level of 18.5-24.9. According to Scientific American, the longest anyone has lived on a hunger strike was 73 days, but that is without vitamins. Death only becomes imminent at a weight...