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March 6 saw the 50th anniversary of Ghanaian independence.(Brief article)
March 6 saw the 50th anniversary of Ghanaian independence. Formerly a British colony known as the Gold Coast, Ghana was the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to pass from colonial rule to self-government. It was also one of the most prosperous and orderly of Britain's African possessions. Hopes for independent Ghana were high. Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, soon lowered them. A former Catholic seminarian and schoolteacher, Nkrumah attended historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he took up the ideas of black nationalists Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois. By 1957 his head was stuffed with all the flapdoodle of the ...
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- Magazine article from: African Arts Hess, Janet March 22, 2006 700+ words
...reinforcement of hierarchical authority (Cole and Ross 1977, Allman 1993, Akyeampong 1999, McCaskie 1995). In the Ghanaian independence era the employment of exhibition and display--frequently borrowed in form from the Asante--to advance...
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...Wellness Foundation's California Peace Prize, having recently awarded its thirtieth prize. The California Peace Prize annually honors three Californians...which included the California Peace Prize. "Leadership is at the heart of...
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...has been surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts...and 1.4 million dollars. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 Nobel...the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963, and the Office...
- Peace Prize Forum to invite Mikhail Gorbachev to speak at February event.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 15, 1990 700+ words
PEACE PRIZE FORUM TO INVITE GORBACHEV TO SPEAK AT FEBRUARY EVENT...Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Organizers of the annual Peace Prize Forum series will invite 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to speak at...