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Some Ghanaian American organizations are pan-ethnic, while others focus on specific ethnic backgrounds, such as Ewe, Asante, and Gadangme. Most organizations do not have full-time professional staff or large budgets; the largest Ghanaian American organization in terms of revenue was the Ashesi University Foundation, which is based on Seattle. [8]
Robert Edward Lee (13 May 1920 – 5 July 2010) was a Ghanaian dentist. [1] [2] Born in South Carolina to an African-American family, he studied dentistry in Tennessee and then in 1956 emigrated to Ghana with his wife Sara, also a dentist. [3]
John Ackah Blay-Miezah (born John Kolorah Blay, 1941–1992) was a Ghanaian con artist. He was a pioneer of advance-fee fraud. He claimed to be worth $47 billion. From the 1960s to 1980s, he is said to have swindled over $200m from victims in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was named "the Ultimate Con Man" by 60 Minutes. [1] [2] [3]
The history of African Americans in Ghana goes back to individuals such as American civil rights activist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), who settled in Ghana in the last years of his life and is buried in the capital, Accra. Since then, other African Americans who are descended from slaves imported from areas within the present-day ...
Attiah was born in 1986 in North Central Texas to a Nigerian-Ghanaian mother and Ghanaian father. [1] Her father was a pulmonologist. [2] After graduation from Northwestern University with a degree in communication studies and a minor in African studies, Attiah won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Accra, Ghana, and obtained an MA in international affairs in 2012 from Columbia University's ...
On June 20, 2013, one jury returned a verdict of death against Tyrone Miller and Emrys John, and a separate jury returned a life without possibility of parole verdict as to Cox. The fourth defendant, Kesaun Sykes, was sentenced to death on November 7, 2014. [4] [42] On July 19, 2013, in Riverside Superior Court, Miller was sentenced to death. [43]
David Anumle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff; Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine; Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah (born 1930), first Ghanaian policewoman; Jerry Rawlings, former president of the Republic of Ghana and Ghana Air Force fighter pilot
Thomas Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1950. [1] His father, J. K. Mensah, was a merchant who shipped cocoa products to chocolate manufacturers in France. [5] Mensah was fluent in French, and won the National French competition held in Accra, Ghana, both at the Ordinary Level (1968) and Advanced Level (1970).