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| May 2001 |
Volume
3 - Issue 2
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About Us |
ASHANTI
KING TO BE IN METRO DETROIT
PONTIAC:- The Silver Dome in Pontiac Mich. would resemble a ceremonial
traditional durbar site June 2nd 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. By The Journalist Sir Lawrence Bonzo Akainyah, brother to Chicago’s prominent artist Samuel Akainyah, died at a Columbus Hospital March 21st, 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
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