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Nana Adwoa Tiwaah “Agatha” Okyere was born on December 12, 1957 in Kumasi, Ghana, according to her class records. She says she has three younger brothers and an older sister. Of her parents, she hints only at a guardian living in Ghana...
...reflects happily on life with her daughter Jasmine, and states that she is “deeply involved” in church life in Kumasi, Ghana...
Understandably, the students I spoke to by and large feel distant from their impoverished countrymen. Poku-Appiah's three sisters all live in London, far from their native Kumasi, married to Ghanaians engaging in things like medicine and building contracting. Omar Rahman '79, from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu...
...ASANTEHENE OF GHANA. Otumofuo [All Highest] Nana Opoku Ware II, King of Ghana's 1.8 million Ashanti, still wields considerable power as Keeper of the Golden Stool. A barrister in the Ashanti capital of Kumasi until he became a king in 1970 (succeeding his uncle), Nana Opoku, 54, is all but coddled by Ghana's leaders. In turn, he takes a lively-but noninter-fering-interest in national affairs...
...concentrate on local affairs. In return, Ghana's President, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, has pledged to leave tribal affairs solely in the hands of the chiefs. Thus, when local student groups started to protest in June against a $2.5 million palace that Nana Opoku is now building in Kumasi, they were quickly told by Accra...