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ASHANTI KING TO BE IN METRO DETROIT
Five Michigan Area Mayors to Host Gregarious Event at the Silverdome

By The Journalist

 PONTIAC:- The Silver Dome in Pontiac Mich. would resemble a ceremonial traditional durbar site June 2^nd when Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene (King of the Ashantis) and an entourage of 26 ignite observers with true Ashanti culture. Sponsored by five-area Michigan mayors including Mayor Dennis Archer of Detroit, Mayor Walter Moore of Pontiac, Mayor Gary Loster of Saginaw, Mayor Woodrow Stanley of Flint and Mayor David Hollister of Lansing, the ceremony would seek to promote Otumfuo’s Education Fund (OEF), an endeavor that has been initiated to help financially with the failing schools in Ghana. One hundred thousand people are expected to be in attendance.

AFRICA LOSES A LEGAL GIANT TO SURGERY IN THE U.S.
Sir Lawrence Akainyah, brother to Chicago’s prominent artist Samuel Akainyah dies at a Columbus, OH. Hospital

By The Journalist

Sir Lawrence Bonzo Akainyah, brother to Chicago’s prominent artist Samuel Akainyah, died at a Columbus Hospital March 21^st, 2001. Sir Akainyah had been in the US since last December to undergo surgery. He died on March 21, two weeks after the operation. He was 68.

The late Sir Akainyah had a resume that is long enough to be a screenplay. He was born in Ghana on January 7, 1932. After attending Benyin Catholic School and then Ghana National Secondary School, he had a short stint in the Ghana Police Force and then proceeded to follow the footsteps of his father the late Justice Alfred Augustus Akainyah of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

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