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...seven corps groups now abroad,* the Ghana contingent went well prepared. Before departure, the young teachers (21 of them women) spent eight hard weeks of cramming at the University of California, studied African history, jungle medicine, and a little Twi from a staff that included three teachers from Ghana...
...rosebushes in the White House garden, eventually meandered through the French doors leading to President Kennedy's office. The girls were bright in their flowered summer dresses, the men were turned out in their Sunday best, and everyone was smiling and chatting amiably -sometimes in Swahili and Twi. Inside, the President and his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, looked for all the world like fathers of the bride as they greeted each of the young guests. The occasion was a farewell party for 80 young volunteers (average age: 25) bound for teaching and road-building jobs in Ghana...
...deep mourning over the death of Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will do great good in many ways for many people." To this sentiment...
South Africa's Xhosa, Ghana's Twi-Fante...
...Twi & Ewe. Graham's next stop: Ghana, where a 25-member committee of Protestant leaders has been working since September to prepare the Ghana crusade. Accra (pop. 208,000) had never seen anything like it. Under the leadership of Methodist Minister Peter Dagadu, volunteers had papered the city with thousands of posters, banners, handbills and hymn sheets. Four national newspapers carried ads: CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS-HEAR BILLY GRAHAM-ADMISSION FREE...