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Featured individuals will be celebrities as well as ordinary people and their endevours and achievement will be used to provide positive role models to Ghanaians as well as provide insights into careers that Ghanaians might otherwise not have considered as viable.
Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah was born on 18 March 1920 in a village called Kukua near Adawso in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Ofosu-Appiah’s parents were Seth Fianko — a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Kubease, Larteh, Ghana — and Agnes Fianko (née Reynolds) — also a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Akropong, Akwapim, Ghana.
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Kofi Awoonor (born March 13, 1935 in Wheta) is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
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Philip Quaque was born ca. 1741, the son of Birempon Cudjoe, a successful caboceer (chief) of Cape Coast in what is present-day Ghana. As a youth, he was educated by Rev. Thomas Thompson, the first missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to work in the Gold Coast. Rev. Thompson arrived in Cape Coast in 1752 where he served as chaplain to the British military establishing the organizing of a small school.
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Kofi A. Boateng, CPA, AAI's Chief Operations Officer, is responsible for managerial oversight of AAI’s operations, and further development of the financial infrastructure that enables AAI to expand programs while maintaining fiscal accountability.
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Joseph Boateng joined Casey Family Programs as its first Chief Investment Officer in 2007. He is responsible for overseeing the foundation's endowment in collaboration with Casey's Board of Trustees. Casey Family Programs is the nation's largest operating foundation with a mission focused solely on providing and improving-and ultimately preventing the need for-foster care.
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Lynette Yiadom Boakye (born 1977, London, UK) is an artist of Ghanaian descent based in London. Boakye attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools.
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Born in London of Ghanaian origin, Johnnie Sapong has styled hair for most of his adult life. It was while attending art college that Johnnie’s hairstyling training began with an offer from a friend’s sister to help out at her prestigious West End salon, Molton Brown. From that day Johnnie has never looked back.Â
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Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was an educated man with farming property, a fleet of ships and a successful shipping business on the coast of Massachusetts. He was an African American and an advocate for equal rights for Afrian Americans. In the early 19th century, he envisioned a society that granted individuals equal rights regardless of race. He had an opportunity to request equal liberties for Afrian Americans before the President of the United States and House of Representatives (Wiggins 1996, 58).
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Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work -- and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex’s inner workings.
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