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...I have had extraordinary mentors like Kwame Dawes, who also edited my first collection. Mimi Khalvati has been my mentor for over 15 years, and I continue to show her my work....
...The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight....
...In fact his real name was John Kolorah Blay, and he’d grown up poor in the coastal village of Alengenzure....
...In Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, a statue of Ghana’s first president bears his influential words: “Forward ever, backward never”....
...In a speech before Lumumba’s family at the Palais d’Egmont, he said: “A man was assassinated for his political convictions, his words, his ideals. For the democrat that I am, it is indefensible....
...By eight, he’d joined Positive Force, his father’s band, and at 17 he was studying music composition in London at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, his grandfather’s alma mater....
...“But right now, it seems crazy to be talking about 90 days when I’d settle for just nine!”...
...“Kwame’s there!” says Beatrice Osuntoki, one of the community matrons, laughing and pointing to her colleague after silence follows one of Cole’s questions. “Come on, Kwame!”...
...In another version of the year, Lee would have announced the winner of the Palme d’Or on May 23, making history by the Riviera....
...Photographer and mixed-media artist Joana Choumali, from Côte d’Ivoire, recently became the first African artist to be awarded the prestigious Prix Pictet for her dazzling and sensitive series “Ça va aller...
...(WHO, UN) R&D tracker A separate tracker shows amounts committed for research and development to fight Covid-19....
...I went back through the resource room and found a display case I’d missed on my first lap....
...If he’d followed his parents’ dreams for him, he wouldn’t be here at all....
...“I didn’t really know London, I’d never even been to the city before I moved here....
...With a design resembling a box of La Durée macarons, this is not only an exquisitely entertaining read, but also a collectable objet d’art that will give a sprinkling of camp to even the squarest of coffee...
...For the Young Vic’s artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, the key is in having a black Loman family surrounded by white characters....
...“You’d need a mortgage to buy a pint of beer in Copenhagen,” Mr Bilton adds....
...I’d say both Rwanda and Srebrenica. What could I have done differently? I often wonder....
...Kwame Anthony Appiah Professor of philosophy and law, New York UniversityFiction Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and was educated at Cambridge University, where he gained undergraduate and doctoral...
...In Europe, he says, this means using Sicav (société d’investissement à capital variable) structures, which are tax efficient across the continent, and similar structures in the US and Asia....
...“I’d probably like to replace my planter, but you just can’t justify it with where the commodity prices have gone and the outlook,” he says. He is not alone....
...And he’d laugh....
..., he said when he’d finished it, just as I was sure he would....
...My First Coup d’Etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa, by John Dramani Mahama, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99/$24, 336 pages On February 24 1966, military officers in Ghana toppled President Kwame Nkrumah...
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