Word: nketsia
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...want to be ourselves. We like influences from the West, we like influences from the West, we like influences from the East, but first we want to be ourselves," Nana Nketsia, Ghanian Ambassador to the United Nations, told a Quincy House audience last night...
Speaking at the first meeting of Quincy's Africa forum, Nketsia drew on the writing of two centuries of Ghanian authors and half a millenium of his country's history as he traced the disastrous contribution of Europe's past errors to the present problems of Africa...
Taking as an analogy the adaptation of Catholicism into a "uniquely Ghanian" institution, Nketsia suggested that similar "cultural diffusion" was the only possible way of adapting European institutions to the African situation...
...Nana Nketsia, head of the Ghanian delegation to the United Nations, will speak in the first forum of the Quincy House Africa series on "Culture and Nationalism" at 8 p.m. this evening in Quincy dining room...
...Nketsia was involved in the original Ghanan independence movement and was jailed with President Kwaml Nkruma He has since become a leader in the revival of African culture and directed the planning of the inaugural ceremonies this spring...