- published: 08 Aug 2009
- views: 3394
- author: PanAndFocusNews
Vimeo results:
Youtube results:
More Videos
Loading...
Open Collage in a new Window
Email the Collage
- Loading...
Loading suggestions ...
- African Immigrants
- Akan language
- Akwasi Owusu-Ansah
- Algerian American
- American English
- Angolan American
- Atlanta
- Black People
- Boris Kodjoe
- Boston
- Bronx, NY
- Burkinabé American
- C. J. Sapong
- Central Africa
- Charlie Peprah
- Chicago
- Christian
- Clint Sintim
- Columbus, Ohio
- Congolese American
- Cornell
- Dagbani language
- Detroit
- East Africa
- Ebenezer Ekuban
- Egyptian American
- English language
- Ethiopian American
- Freddy Adu
- Ga–Dangme languages
- Ghana
- Ghanaian
- Ghanaian American
- Ghanaian British
- Gold Coast (region)
- Guinean American
- Harriet Tubman
- Horn of Africa
- Imperialism
- Ivorian American
- Jaye Davidson
- Jeremy Zuttah
- Jon Asamoah
- Joseph Addai
- Joshua Clottey
- Kenyan American
- Kofi Kingston
- Kwaku Danso
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Kwame Raoul
- Larry Asante
- Liberian American
- List of Ghanaians
- Los Angeles
- Malawian American
- Malcolm X
- Malian American
- Maryland
- Michael Blackson
- Moroccan American
- Naki Akarobettoe
- Nana Gbewonyo
- Nana Kuffour
- Nazr Mohammed
- New York City
- Newark, New Jersey
- Nigerian Americans
- Nigerien American
- North Africa
- Peter Mensah
- Portal Ghana
- Portal United States
- Prince Nana
- Remittances
- Republic of Ghana
- Rhian Benson
- Senegalese American
- Slaves
- Somali American
- Southern Africa
- Stanford University
- Sudanese American
- Tunisian American
- Ugandan American
- United States
- Visanthe Shiancoe
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Washington, D.C.
- West Africa
- Xavier Adibi
- Zimbabwean American
-
Atlanta
Atlanta (
/ətˈlæntə/, stressed /ætˈlæntə/, locally /ætˈlænə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a 2010 population of 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest in the U.S. It is a major component of a growing southeastern megalopolis known as the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.
Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad, and air), with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an "alpha(-) world city." With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta's economy ranks 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation. The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines. As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year.
wn.com/Atlanta -
Boston
Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ or locally /ˈbɔstən/ (
listen)) is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering only 48.43 square miles, had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American independence was attained Boston became a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history now helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and the first subway system in the United States (1897).
wn.com/Boston -
Chicago
Chicago (
i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
wn.com/Chicago -
Detroit
Detroit ( /diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
wn.com/Detroit -
Ghana
Ghanai/ˈɡɑːnə/ is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King" and is derived from the ancient Ghana Empire.
Ghana was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient predominantly Akan kingdoms, including the inland Ashanti Empire, the Akwamu, the Akyem, the Bonoman, the Denkyira, and the Fante among others. Non-Akan states created by the Ga also existed as did states by the Dagomba. Prior to contact with Europeans trade between the Akan and various African states flourished due to Akan's gold wealth. Trade with European states began after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and the British established the Gold Coast Crown colony in 1874 over parts but not all of the country.
The Gold Coast achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, becoming the First sub-Saharan African nation to do so from European Colonialism. The name Ghana was chosen for the new nation to reflect the ancient Empire of Ghana, which once extended throughout much of west Africa.
wn.com/Ghana -
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (Amharic: የአፍሪካ ቀንድ?, Arabic: القرن الأفريقي, Somali: Geeska Afrika, Tigrinya: ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ?) (alternatively Northeast Africa, and sometimes Somali Peninsula; shortened to HOA) is a peninsula in East Africa that juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent. Referred to in ancient and medieval times as Bilad al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"), the Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.
It covers approximately 2,000,000 km² (770,000 sq mi) and is inhabited by roughly 100 million people (Ethiopia: 85 million, Somalia: 9.3 million, Eritrea: 5.2 million, and Djibouti: 0.86 million). Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out, among others, in the fields of Ethiopian Studies as well as Somali Studies.
The Horn of Africa is almost equidistant from the equator and the Tropic of Cancer. It consists chiefly of mountains uplifted through the formation of the Great Rift Valley, a fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates. Most of the region is mountainous which arose through faults resulting from the Rift Valley, with the highest peaks in the Semien Mountains of northwestern Ethiopia.[citation needed]
wn.com/Horn_of_Africa -
Kwame Raoul
Kwame Raoul (born September 30, 1964) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment to fill the seat vacated by Barack Obama in 2004. He is the chair of the Illinois Senate's Redistricting Committee and the Senate's Pension & Investments Committee.
Raoul was born in Chicago to Haitian immigrant parents, Dr. Janin and Marie Raoul, whose parents' roots are from present-day Ghana. Raoul earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from DePaul University and went on to receive his law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Raoul was appointed on November 6, 2004 to fill the state Senate vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who had just been elected to the United States Senate.
Since his arrival in Springfield, Raoul has successfully advanced legislation promoting civil justice, early childhood education, domestic violence prevention and political reform. In his first year in the General Assembly, Raoul established a progressive agenda. His work led to the passage of laws expanding access to early voting in Illinois, and the state’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program and a crack down on the Pay Day loan industry.
wn.com/Kwame_Raoul -
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
wn.com/Los_Angeles -
Maryland
Maryland (
i/ˈmɛrɨlənd/) is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it (the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State) are occasionally used. Maryland is the 9th smallest state by area, but the 19th most populous and the 5th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's most populated city is Baltimore. Its capital is Annapolis. It was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.
Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles (32,133.2 km2) and is comparable in overall area with the European country of Belgium (11,787 square miles (30,530 km2)). It is the 42nd largest/9th smallest state, and is closest in size to Hawaii (10,930.98 square miles (28,311.1 km2)), the next smallest state. The next largest state, Maryland's neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland (24,229.76 square miles (62,754.8 km2)).
wn.com/Maryland -
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
wn.com/New_York_City -
Stanford University
Coordinates: 37°26′N 122°10′W / 37.43°N 122.17°W / 37.43; -122.17
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States. It is situated in the northwestern Silicon Valley, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, was one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences.
wn.com/Stanford_University -
United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
wn.com/United_States
-
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States that have ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States. However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American nations, or their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.
African-American history starts in the 16th century with African slaves who quickly rose up against the Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón and progresses to the present day, with Barack Obama as the 44th and current President of the United States. Between those landmarks there have been events and issues, both resolved and ongoing, including slavery, racism, Reconstruction, development of the African-American community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.
wn.com/African_American -
Algerian American
An Algerian American is an American citizen who is descended from Algerians, already either direct or partially, or an Algerian who has American citizenship. The 2000 census counted some 8,752 people of Algerian descent. This figure added to all persons descended from Algerians, as people in the census could claim more than one source.
From 1821 until 1830, only 16 immigrants from all of Africa arrived in the United States. From 1841 until 1850, 55 more arrived. In immigration records until 1899 and in census records until 1920, all Arabs were recorded together in a category known as "Turkey in Asia." Until the 1960s, North African Arabs were counted as "other African." Mass migrations of Muslims to the United States did not happen because Muslims feared that they would not be permitted to maintain their traditions. Census records suggest that only a few hundred Muslim men migrated between 1900 and 1914.
Algeria was introduced as an immigrant record category in 1975, and 72 Algerians immigrated that year. Immigrant numbers increased gradually so that by 1984 there were 197 immigrants. Fourteen were relatives of U.S. citizens, and 31 were admitted on the basis of occupational preference. In 1998, 1,378 Algerians were winners of the DV-99 diversity lottery. The diversity lottery is conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
wn.com/Algerian_American -
Angolan American
Angolan Americans are Americans of Angolan descent. According to estimates by 2000 there were 1.642 people descended from immigrants Angolans in the U.S. Angolan immigration in the United States began in the 17th century, 18th century and early 19th century, when many of the Angolans who were bought as slaves were exported to the United States. The slaves were stolen by English and Dutch pirates to previous owners, the Portuguese, when went out with the slaves of the Angolan port of Luanda. Angolan slavery in the United States had its stronghold between 1619 and 1650. Two of the Angolan tribes more prominent in the U.S. slavery was Ndongo and Mbundu.. Thus, in states like Virginia or Maryland, the majority of slaves came from within the boundaries of the modern nation-states of Nigeria and Angola.
Large-scale Angolan immigration to the United States began in the 1970s; they settled primarily in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Phoenix, and Chicago. There are also some in Brockton, Massachusetts; they were attracted to the area by the presence of an already-established Cape Verdean community.. This was due to Cape Verdeans speaking Portuguese as do many of the immigrants from Angola. Currently, most Americans of Angolans ancestries speak Portuguese and English.
wn.com/Angolan_American -
Black People
The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context. Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of "whiteness" and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for "blackness" in a particular setting.
As a biological phenotype being "black" is often associated with the very dark skin colors of some people who are classified as "black". But, particularly in the United States, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being "African-American". As a result, in the United States the term "black people" is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification.
wn.com/Black_People -
Boris Kodjoe
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe (born 8 March 1973), better known as Boris Kodjoe, is an Austrian-born German actor and former fashion model who works primarily in the United States. He is perhaps best known for his role as courier-turned-sports agent Damon Carter on the Showtime television drama series Soul Food and for his role as David Taylor in the film The Gospel . Additionally, he starred as Steven Bloom in the cancelled 2010 NBC action/drama series Undercovers, and as Luther in the film Resident Evil: Afterlife.
Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996. A four-year letterman on the Rams' men's tennis team, he is currently ninth in school history with 75 career singles wins. Tied for third in doubles victories with 66, he was paired with Jonas Elmblad on 37 of them, also third all-time. His brother Patrick Kodjoe played for VCU's basketball team. A back injury ended Boris' tennis aspirations, but he was quickly signed as a model and soon after entered acting.
wn.com/Boris_Kodjoe -
Burkinabé American
Burkinabé Americans are Americans of Burkinabé descent. The cities with the most significant population are: Washington, D.C. and New York City, and there is also a community in Texas. Burkinabé Americans speak several African languages, being the most spoken the Moore, Dioula, Gurma, and Senufo, they also speak French (as second language) and English. In 2009 there were an estimated 5,000-6000 Burkinabé immigrants.
wn.com/Burkinabé_American -
Charlie Peprah
Charles Yaw "Charlie" Peprah (born February 24, 1983) is an American football safety for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 5th round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alabama.
Peprah has also played for the Atlanta Falcons.
Peprah is the grandson of the former military president of Ghana, general Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. Ruling in a coup d’etat in 1972, Acheampong remained in power until 1977 and was executed in 1979 after a revolution. Acheampong's daughter Elizabeth Acheampong, the last family member to see her father alive, married Josh Peprah, a member of Acheampong's army, and immigrated to Europe and then the United States. Peprah was born in Fort Worth, Texas and has two brothers, Richard and Josh, college football players at Wyoming and Wisconsin respectively. When he was in middle school, his parents divorced, and his father returned to Ghana. Charlie Peprah attended Plano East Senior High School. As of 2011, Peprah's mother was still working as a Home Depot cashier.
wn.com/Charlie_Peprah -
Clint Sintim
Clint Kofi Sintim (born February 21, 1986) is an American football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia.
A native of Fairfax County, Virginia, Sintim attended Gar-Field Senior High School, where he made 35 tackles and had three quarterback sacks as a senior and earned first-team all-state and SuperPrep All-American honors. Sintim broke his left leg playing for Gar-Field's boys basketball team on January 13. He is of Ghanaian descent.
Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Sintim was listed as the No. 30 strongside defensive end prospect in the nation. He picked Virginia over Tennessee and Virginia Tech on February 2, 2004.
Sintim lined up as rush linebacker in Virginia's 3-4 defense and he's expected to play a similar role in the NFL. He led the NCAA in sacks by a linebacker his senior year. He ranked third on the team with 70 tackles (38 solos) and had eleven sacks and thirteen stops for losses in 2008. Additionally he caused a fumble and recovered two others and deflected three passes
wn.com/Clint_Sintim -
Congolese American
Congolese Americans are Americans of descent from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo.
According to the 2000 census, 3,886 Congolese Americans from the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in the United States. The number of Americans that are from and the smaller Republic of the Congo is unknown. Rose Mapendo who suffered from the war has helped 2,000 refugees to emigrate into the United States through the organization Mapendo International . French and any of the several Bantu languages are spoken in addition to English. Most Congolese are Christians.
The largest Congolese communities in the U.S. are Boston, New York City, and the Washington, D.C.–Baltimore area[citation needed]. There is also a significant population of Congolese Americans Charlotte and Raleigh areas, in the state North Carolina[citation needed].
wn.com/Congolese_American -
Ebenezer Ekuban
Ebenezer Ekuban, Jr. (born May 29, 1976 in Accra, Ghana) is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys 20th overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina.
Ekuban started playing football his junior year of high school as a tight end and defensive lineman for Bladensburg High School in Bladensburg, Maryland. Ebenezer, a high school honor student, soon became a standout player due to his size, strength, speed, and intelligence, which led to a scholarship from the University of North Carolina.
While at North Carolina, Tar Heel head coach Mack Brown (now Head coach at the University of Texas) moved Ekuban from tight end to defensive end.
Ekuban was a first-round draft pick by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1999 NFL draft. He later joined Cleveland as a free agent in 2004.
He is currently a defensive end with the Denver Broncos, who acquired him, along with defensive lineman Michael Myers, in 2005 in a trade with the Cleveland Browns for running back Reuben Droughns. Along with the team coincidentally signing Courtney Brown as well as acquiring Gerard Warren in a separate trade with Cleveland, the media referred to the Broncos defensive line as the "Browncos", since all four of their starters were with the Browns the year before.
wn.com/Ebenezer_Ekuban -
Egyptian American
Egyptian Americans are Americans of Egyptian ancestry, first-generation Egyptian immigrants, or descendants of Egyptians who immigrated to the United States as well as having American citizenship. In 2007 U.S. census, the number of people with Egyptian ancestry was estimated at 195,000, although some estimates range from several 800,000 to 2 million. The large majority of Egyptians in the U.S. are Coptic Orthodox Christians.
wn.com/Egyptian_American -
Ethiopian American
Ethiopian Americans are Americans of Ethiopian descent as well as those of American and Ethiopian ancestry.
The first known Ethiopians visited America in 1808, when merchants from Ethiopia arrived at New York’s famous Wall Street.[citation needed]
In 1919 an official Ethiopian goodwill mission was sent to the United States, the first African delegation of diplomats, in hopes of creating amicable ties with the American people and government.[citation needed] The four-person delegation included Dejazmach Nadew, the nephew of Empress Zawditu and Commander of the Imperial Army, along with Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Kentiba Gebru, Mayor of Gondar, and Ato Sinkas, Dejazmach Nadew’s secretary.
After his official coronation, Emperor Haile Selassie sent forth the first wave of Ethiopian students to continue their education abroad. Almost a dozen Ethiopian students likewise went to the United States. They included Makonnen Desta, who studied anthropology at Harvard, and later became an interim Ethiopian Minister of Education, Makonnen Haile, who studied finance at Cornell, and Ingida Yohannes, veterinary medicine at New York. Three other students, Melaku Beyen, Besha Worrid Hapte Wold and Worku Gobena, went to Muskingum, a missionary college in Ohio, two of them later transferring to Ohio State University. Melaku Beyan, who was one of the two who attended Ohio State, later received his medical degree at Howard Medical School in Washington, D.C.
wn.com/Ethiopian_American -
Freddy Adu
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born June 2, 1989) is a Ghanaian-born American soccer player who currently plays for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer. He plays primarily as an attacking midfielder, but he is also used as a winger or forward.
At the age of 14, he became one of the youngest athletes to sign a professional contract in the United States, after he was selected by D.C. United in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft. On April 3, 2004, he became the youngest player to appear in a Major League Soccer (MLS) game when he came on as a substitute in a game against the San Jose Earthquakes. Two weeks later, on April 17, he became the youngest scorer in MLS history, scoring a goal in a 3–2 loss to the MetroStars.
Freddy Adu was considered a promisse for United States soccer, granting a large amount of hype towarding him and even been called the "next Pele". Despite his great actuations in youth U.S. team, he failed to demostrate enough skills to play in English Premier League and wasn't called by U.S. Soccer for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
wn.com/Freddy_Adu -
Ghanaian American
Ghanaian Americans are citizens of both the Republic of Ghana and the United States or who are of Ghanaian heritage or were born in Ghana or a person whose ancestors were Ghanaian and immigrated to the United States of America and children of Ghanaians born in the United States.
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves. Typically, the product of wars, many slaves were people sold to Europeans, although West African slavery was much different from American chattel slavery. Although slaves came from a number of locations on the African continent, the likelihood of an African-American or any Black person from the diaspora having at least some ancestry in Ghana is relatively high.
Ghanaians began arriving in the United States en masse during the 1950s and 1960s amid the Civil Rights and anti-Imperialism era. Ghanaians such as Kwame Nkrumah were taught at American universities and worked with black American leaders for the rights of Black People worldwide. Notable African American intellectuals and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X used early Ghana as a symbol of black achievement. Most immigrants from Ghana who came to the United States were (and are) students who came to get a better education. Thus, most of the early Ghanaian immigrants planned on using the education acquired in the United States to better Ghana. However, many Ghanaians that migrated in the 1980s and 1990s, came to get business opportunities. In difficult economic times the number of Ghanaians who emigrated to the United States was small. However, when these economic problems were paralyzed, they saved money to emigrate to the United States.
wn.com/Ghanaian_American -
Guinean American
Guinean Americans are Americans of Guinean descent. According to estimates by 2000 US Census there were 3,016 people who identified Guinean as one of their two-top ancestry identities. However, in November 2010 the New York Times estimated that as many 10,000 Guineans and Guinean Americans reside in New York City alone.
The communities with the most significant population are Washington, DC, New York City and Rhode Island. Guinean immigration into the U.S. has been increasing since the 1990s. Guinean Americans speak several African Languages, being the most spoken the Maninka (Malinke), Susu, Pular (Fulfulde or Fulani), Kissi, Kpelle, they also speak French (as second language) and English.
wn.com/Guinean_American -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; 1820 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
As a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten by masters to whom she was hired out. Early in her life, she suffered a head wound when hit by a heavy metal weight. The injury caused disabling seizures, narcoleptic attacks, headaches, and powerful visionary and dream activity, which occurred throughout her life. A devout Christian, Tubman ascribed the visions and vivid dreams to revelations from God.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Tubman was the one helping them. When the Southern-dominated Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, requiring law officials in free states to aid efforts to recapture slaves, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, where slavery was prohibited.
wn.com/Harriet_Tubman -
Ivorian American
Ivorian Americans are Americans of Ivorian descent. According to estimates by 2000 there were 3,110 people descended of Ivorian immigrants. The cities with the most significant population are: New York City, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Worcester, Massachusetts, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Rhode Island primarily in Providence.
Ivorian immigration into the U.S. has been increasing since the 1990s. Ivorians speak several African Languages, being the most spoken the Dioula dialect of Bambara, Dioula, Gurma, and Senufo, other languages native languages include: the Gur languages, the Senufo languages, the Kru languages (including the Bété languages, and the Kwa languages from which Baoulé and Anyin are used by a considerable part of Ivorians, they also speak French (as second language) and English.
wn.com/Ivorian_American -
Jaye Davidson
Jaye Davidson (born Alfred Amey; March 21, 1968) is an American-British former actor and model. He is best known for his roles as transgender woman "Dil" in the 1992 suspense-drama thriller film The Crying Game, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, making him the first Black British actor to be nominated for an Oscar, and in 1994's Stargate as Ra.
Davidson was born in Riverside, California, outside of Los Angeles, to a Ghanaian father and English mother. His family moved to the United Kingdom when he was two years old, where Davidson grew up in Hertfordshire, England.
Davidson, who had no acting experience, was discovered by a casting associate at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's Edward II. His androgynous look led to his casting as Dil in The Crying Game.
After filming wrapped, he returned to his fashion career until landing the role of the evil sun god Ra in Stargate opposite Kurt Russell and James Spader.
Voted best newcomer by the National Board of Review, 1993; Oscar nomination for best supporting actor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1993.
wn.com/Jaye_Davidson -
Jeremy Zuttah
Jeremy Kwasi Zuttah (born June 1, 1986) is an American football offensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buccaneers in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Rutgers.
Zuttah started for three years at J. P. Stevens High School, becoming a highly-touted prospect and turning down several college football powers for Rutgers. Zuttah's career followed in the footsteps of his older brother Jeff, who committed to the University of Michigan in 2003, but never played a down after team doctors became concerned about his sickle-cell anemia. Jeff later transferred to Stanford University.
As a true freshman in 2004, Zuttah was a reserve player, appearing in nine games, with five starts at both tackle spots and left guard. In 2005, Zuttah started at left guard next to Pedro Sosa, forming a top combination that helped paved the way for Ray Rice during his freshman season. In 2006, Rutgers switched to a zone blocking scheme, and Zuttah subsequently moved to right tackle, in order to better utilize his athleticism in the scheme. Emerging as a vocal team leader, Zuttah earned all-Big East honors as the Rutgers offensive line only surrendered 8 sacks all season, the fewest in all of Division I-A, also ranking fifteenth in the nation in rushing.
wn.com/Jeremy_Zuttah -
Jon Asamoah
Jonathan Yao-Lante Asamoah (born July 21, 1988) is an American football offensive guard for the Kansas City Chiefs. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Asamoah was considered one of the top interior offensive linemen for the 2010 NFL Draft.
Asamoah attended Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois, where he was a two-time first-team SICA Green All-Conference selection and helped the offense to gain over 3,100 rushing yards. He was an All-State selection by the Chicago Sun-Times, and an All-Midwest Region selection by PrepStar.
Considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, Asamoah was not ranked among the nation's best offensive linemen prospects in 2005. He originally committed to Northern Illinois, but reconsidered his choice after he received an offer by Illinois.
In his initial year at Illinois, Asamoah played in five of the last six games of the season at offensive guard as a true freshman. In 2007, he started at right guard in all 13 games and was in on 991 offensive plays. He recorded 80 knockdowns, blocking for 2007 Big Ten Player of the Year Rashard Mendenhall, who later was a first-round selection in the 2008 NFL Draft.
wn.com/Jon_Asamoah -
Joseph Addai
Joseph Addai, Jr. (born May 3, 1983) is an American football running back for the New England Patriots. He was selected in the first round (30th overall pick) of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Louisiana State University by the Indianapolis Colts and played for the team for six seasons.
Addai's family hails from Ghana in West Africa. In high school, Addai was a left-handed option-style quarterback for the Sharpstown Apollos. In his senior year, he rushed for 1,429 yards on 159 carries and completed 37 passes for 425 yards. He was chosen as a member of the 5A All-State first team in Texas. He was named an All-American by ESPN and Fox Sports, and was rated as a top 100 recruit.
During his tenure with the Louisiana State University Tigers, he ranked fifth all-time in rushing, with 2,577 yards, despite being primarily used as a blocking fullback early in his career. He wore two numbers while at LSU, 41 in his early years and then number 10 in his final years.
Addai started his stint at LSU in 2001, but after only two games was granted a medical redshirt. The following season, he carried the football 80 times, gaining 438 yards, and scoring four touchdowns. His first big game came against the University of South Carolina, during which he gained 98 yards on eleven carries and scored two touchdowns. On November 9, 2002, he amassed 91 yards, including a 63 yard run for a score, against the Kentucky Wildcats at Commonwealth Stadium. His performance helped to set the stage for The Bluegrass Miracle, a "miraculous" 74-yard game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Marcus Randall to wide receiver Devery Henderson as time expired on the last play of the game.
wn.com/Joseph_Addai -
Joshua Clottey
Joshua Clottey (born March 16, 1976) is a Ghanaian professional boxer. Born in Accra, Ghana, Clottey now lives in the Bronx, New York. He is the former IBF welterweight champion. He is also the brother of veteran boxers Judas Clottey and Emmanuel Clottey.
As a child in his native Ghana, Clottey had a passion for football, a sport that was also played by his father. Clottey moved and spent a few years in the United Kingdom then later to the United States.
Clottey rose to prominence by winning his first twenty fights, including 14 by knockout. His performance set him up to fight Carlos Baldomir, in a title defense by Baldomir for the WBC international welterweight title. Clottey lost by disqualification in a controversial fight. Clottey was winning until the 10th round, where he was penalized two points for an intentional head butt. He was warned for this but did it again resulting in the referee stopping the fight and disqualifying Clottey.
Clottey rebounded from the loss by winning the African Boxing Union welterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. On April 7, 2007, Clottey earned a unanimous decision over Diego Corrales, in what was Corrales's final fight before his death. In December 2007, Clottey positioned himself for another title shot with a win over prospect Shamone Alvarez. Clottey beat Zab Judah on August 2, 2008, for the IBF welterweight title vacated by Antonio Margarito.
wn.com/Joshua_Clottey -
Kenyan American
Kenyan Americans are Americans of Kenyan descent. Based on figures from the 2000 Census, there are an estimated 40,680 Kenyan Americans. Most Kenyan Americans are concentrated in the greater Washington, D.C. area, Texas, California, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, New York and North Carolina.
Restrictions against immigration from Asia and Africa led to little voluntary immigration from Kenya until the latter half of the 20th century.
Due to political and economic unrest in Kenya, between the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, Kenyan emigration in the United States noted a large increase, nearly doubling from the decades before.
The increase in migration in the United States from Kenyans was produced by several factors; political instability and a downturn in the economy in the 1980s in Kenya coupled with a high rate of unemployment (over 35 percent) led to a greater desire to immigrate. Some immigrants were also attracted to technology-oriented careers in the United States that boomed in availability in the 1990s and early 2000s.
wn.com/Kenyan_American -
Kofi Kingston
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981), is a Ghanaian American professional wrestler signed to WWE and appearing on its Raw brand under the ring name, Kofi Kingston. He and R-Truth are the current WWE Tag Team Champions. Since debuting with WWE, he has won the Intercontinental Championship three times, the United States Championship twice, the World Tag Team Championship once with CM Punk and the WWE Tag Team Championship twice, once with Evan Bourne and once with R-Truth.
He made his official wrestling debut in 2006, when he faced Tony Omega at Chaotic Wrestling on February 24th. He faced Evan Siks on June 4 for the PWF Mayhem Heavyweight Championship. He competed primarily in the New England area, including stints in National Wrestling Alliance – New England, Millennium Wrestling Federation, New England Championship Wrestling, the Eastern Wrestling Alliance, and Chaotic Wrestling.
In September 2006, he signed a developmental contract with WWE and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), a Georgia based developmental federation. He debuted in the new company, as Kofi Nahaje Kingston, in a dark match loss to Montel Vontavious Porter on September 21. For the rest of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, he appeared in DSW, as well as its Kentucky based sister promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he was in a tag team dubbed the "Commonwealth Connection" with Harry Smith. In 2007, under the ring name "Kofi Nahaje Kingson", he had his first exposure to the main WWE roster, when he worked dark matches on March 5 and 26 before episodes of Raw against Charlie Haas and Trevor Murdoch, respectively. When he returned to the developmental federations, he shortened his original ring name to "Kofi Kingston" and continued to use both ring names throughout his duration there. He also worked live events, defeating Shelton Benjamin on May 5, and Val Venis on May 6.
wn.com/Kofi_Kingston -
Kwaku Danso
Kwaku Danso (born March 17, 1982, in Kumasi, Ghana) is an American football nose tackle that is currently a free agent. Danso played college football at East Carolina University.
Officially joined the East Carolina football program as a walk-on prior to spring drills and earned subsequent roster position. A member of the scout team who did not experience game action during the fall. ECU former defensive coordinator, Greg Hudson, remarked that this player had "a lot on his plate" academically and was "smarter than four or five players put together". Danso achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering from this university in 2009. He additionally studied Hospitality Management with ultimate goals of starting his own business, rebuilding in Ghana, and helping to make clean water more accessible in third world countries.[2] It was in the midst of pursuing a masters degree in Occupational Safety that he was invited to Cleveland Browns' training camp.
The Browns' former defensive coordinator, Rob Ryan, was paramount in starting this player's journey in the NFL. In attendance at ECU's 2010 pro day, he found himself completely in awe of Danso's sheer strength (bench-pressing an impressive 225 pounds 39 times) and struck by the look in his eyes. Ryan scouted players with much more experience, but Danso was the one he kept remembering. Danso signed with the Cleveland Browns on May 17, 2010.[1] He was waived/injured on August 24, 2010. Before football, soon after coming to the United States 2002, Danso worked as a butcher, a nightclub bouncer (where he was first encouraged by Washington Redskins Players to try the game), and balanced up to four jobs simultaneously in order to pay for school. At this time, he desires to continue playing. In the future, he aims to use his career in football as a platform to run his own constriction business and give back to the community through philanthropic endeavors and mentorship.[2]
wn.com/Kwaku_Danso -
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah ( /ˈæpɪɑː/ API-ah; born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British-Americanphilosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
Appiah was born in London to Enid Margaret Appiah, an art historian and writer, and Joe Emmanuel Appiah born 16 November 1918
a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Asante region, once part of the British Gold Coast Colony but now part of Ghana. For two years (1970-72) he was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country's three opposing parties, simultaneously he was the president of the Ghana Bar association. Between the years 1977-78 he was Ghana's representative at the united nations. He died on 8 July 1990 in an Accra hospital at age 71.
wn.com/Kwame_Anthony_Appiah -
Kwame Nkrumah
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972), P.C., was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1909 to Madam Nyaniba in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkrumah trained to be a teacher at Achimota School in Accra from 1927 to 1930 . For the following 5 years he worked as a teacher in several schools in the Gold Coast including a Catholic school in Axim, whilst saving money to continue his education in the USA. In 1935 he sailed from Takoradi, the Gold Coast's main port, to Liverpool in England, and made his way to London where he obtained his student visa from the US Embassy. It was while he was in London in late 1935 thet he heard the news of Fascist Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, an event that outraged the young Nkrumah and influenced his political development. In October 1935 Nkrumah sailed from Liverpool to the United States and enrolled in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1942. Nkrumah earned a Master of Science in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and a Master of Arts in philosophy the following year. While lecturing in political science at Lincoln he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada. As an undergraduate at Lincoln he participated in at least one student theater production and published an essay on European government in Africa in the student newspaper, The Lincolnian.
wn.com/Kwame_Nkrumah -
Kwame Raoul
Kwame Raoul (born September 30, 1964) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment to fill the seat vacated by Barack Obama in 2004. He is the chair of the Illinois Senate's Redistricting Committee and the Senate's Pension & Investments Committee.
Raoul was born in Chicago to Haitian immigrant parents, Dr. Janin and Marie Raoul, whose parents' roots are from present-day Ghana. Raoul earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from DePaul University and went on to receive his law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Raoul was appointed on November 6, 2004 to fill the state Senate vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who had just been elected to the United States Senate.
Since his arrival in Springfield, Raoul has successfully advanced legislation promoting civil justice, early childhood education, domestic violence prevention and political reform. In his first year in the General Assembly, Raoul established a progressive agenda. His work led to the passage of laws expanding access to early voting in Illinois, and the state’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program and a crack down on the Pay Day loan industry.
wn.com/Kwame_Raoul -
Larry Asante
Larry Asante (born March 7, 1988) is an American football safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska.
Asante was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended Annandale High School where he played under legendary defensive coordinator Billy Edwards and after his parents divorced he was moved to the hayfield boundary where he later attended Hayfield Secondary School for his senior year where he played on both the defense and offense. Here he earned all-league honors as a running back in the AAA Patriot Division.
Asante registered 76 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, three blocked kicks and an interception as a linebacker at Coffeyville Community College.
Asante entered the 2007 season as the starting strong safety after transitioning from linebacker in the spring. He played in twelve games, starting ten of them.
Asante started twelve games of the thirteen he played in 2008. He finished the 2008 season as Nebraska's second-leading tackler with 67 tackles, including 45 solo tackles. He made at least five tackles in eight games, led by a career-high 13 stops at Oklahoma.
wn.com/Larry_Asante -
Liberian American
Liberian Americans are American citizens who are of Liberian descent. This includes Liberians who are of African American descent. It also includes the descendants of Americo-Liberian people in America. Immigration to the United States by Liberians began after the First Liberian Civil War in the 1980s and after the Second Liberian Civil War in the early 2000s. An estimated 100,000 Liberians live in the U.S. as of this time. The diplomatic relationship between Liberia and the USA goes back over 150 years since Liberia's foundation by returning African slaves freed by abolitionist societies whom set aside land for the freedmen and paved the way to its' independence.
wn.com/Liberian_American -
List of Ghanaians
This list of Ghanaians includes people who were born in Ghana and people who are of Ghanaian ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.
This list should be carefully maintained, and adding or deleting a name without first discussing the change on the article's talk page is likely to be reverted. This list should contain the names of persons who meet Wikipedia's Notability criteria, even if the person does not have an article yet. Additions to the list must be listed in alphabetical order by first name, where applicable and must provide a reliable verifiable source which cites the person's notability, otherwise it will be removed.
wn.com/List_of_Ghanaians -
Malawian American
Malawian Americans includes a group of individuals born in Malawi or of Malawian descent that are living in the United State of America. The Malawian Diaspora mainly consists of academics, small business owners, medical professionals and laborers. According to the U.S. Census (2000), African immigrants to the United States rank at the top of all immigrant groups in educational attainment. Out of this group, Malawian immigrants to the United States rank in the top 5 in terms of educational attainment with 83% of Malawians having reported at least a high school diploma or above.
Malawians in the U.S have organized associations in their host countries in order to promote and preserve Malawian cultural heritage. The longest serving organizations is the Malawi Washington Association in the Washington DC Metro Area. Other associations in include associations in Indiana, Texas, California, and New England where large numbers of Malawians reside.
The Malawian City of Zomba is sister cities with Urbana, Illinois.
wn.com/Malawian_American -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X ( /ˈmælkəm ˈɛks/; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
Malcolm X's father died—killed by white supremacists, it was rumored—when he was young, and at least one of his uncles was lynched. When he was thirteen, his mother was placed in a mental hospital, and he was placed in a series of foster homes. In 1946, at age 20, he went to prison for breaking and entering.
In prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam and after his parole in 1952 he quickly rose to become one of its leaders. For a dozen years Malcolm X was the public face of the controversial group, but disillusionment with Nation of Islam head Elijah Muhammad led him to leave the Nation in March 1964. After a period of travel in Africa and the Middle East, he returned to the United States, where he founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In February 1965, less than a year after leaving the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three members of the group.
wn.com/Malcolm_X -
Malian American
Malian Americans are Americans of Malian descent. The cities with the most significant population are: New York City, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, and Baltimore. Malian Americans speak several African languages, Bambara being the most spoken; they also speak French (as a second language) and English. New York is home to approximately 8.000 Malian Americans.
wn.com/Malian_American -
Michael Blackson
Michael Blackson (born November 28, 1972) is Ghanaian-American actor and comedian. He uses his Ghanaian and American life experiences in his stand up comedy routine in a slight Ghanaian accent. Blackson has been called the most original foreign stand-up comic in the country.
Having been inspired by the comedy styling of Eddie Murphy Blackson developed his comedic talent in the unkind comedy clubs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beginning in 1992. Michael Blackson has performed in many well-known comedy competitions such as the 1992 USA Comedy Central Tour in Philadelphia, the 1993 Schlitz Malt Liquor Comedy Tour in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and the 1996 Urban Comedy Festival in New York City. In 1999-2000 Blackson also competed in the Laffapolooza Comedy Festival in Atlanta and the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition in Oakland, California in 2001.
Michael Blackson moved up the acting ladder with his performance in the 2000 comedy film Next Friday, produced by Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision [1]. In 2005 he released his top-selling comedy sketch CD entitled Modasucka: Welcome to America [2]. Also in 2005, he made an appearance on, TV series 30 Rock, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO [3], and starred in a commercial for the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. In 2007, he was in the movie Repos with Master P (written and produced by Master P). In 2010, he appeared in B.o.B's "I'll Be In the Sky" music video. In 2011, he recently appeared on BET "The Mo'Nique Show" which his appearance had him trending on Twitter& also going on his third appearance on TBS Series Are We There Yet. In 2011, Michael recently starred on Starz's Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up which had 3 million views on Youtube and Showtime's Shaquille O'Neal All Star Comedy Jam plus he is currently headlining Shaq All Star Comedy Jam Tour. Blackston appeared on the Judge Joe Brown show in 2011 as a defendant for not showing up for a scheduled gig. He lost the case.
wn.com/Michael_Blackson -
Moroccan American
Moroccan Americans are persons of Moroccan ancestry or born in Morocco as well as persons who have a dual Moroccans and United States citizenship .
Moroccan presence in the United States was rare until the mid-twentieth century. The first North African who came to America was Azemmuri, a Moroccan pilot boat, that came to that place before Christopher Columbus. It is also possible that some South American descendants of Sephardic Jews from Morocco emigrated to United States in the early twentieth century, after the decline of the rubber industry in South America in 1910 to which their families had been dedicated for generations. After of the II World War, some groups of Sephardic Jews from Morocco emigrated to United States, fleeing poverty in North Africa. Most of them got established in zones where already had established Sephardic Jews communities from Spain, Turkey, or the Balkans. Arabized Moroccans, however, not arrived to United States in significative numbers until late of the year 70.
wn.com/Moroccan_American -
Naki Akarobettoe
Naki Akrobettoe is an American poet who has worked with prominent singers and is cofounder of some organizations.
Naki was born in Columbus, Ohio where she also grew up. She is the daughter of an American coalminer and of the granddaughter of Ghanaian royalty. She wrote her first poem when she was twelve years old.
After of studying the work of writers such as Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes and Toi Derricotte, she attended The University of Toledo where she met her mentor Rane Arroyo. Arroyo helped Naki to develop as a spoken word poet, and she began receiving requests to perform both on and off campus.
In 2004 she Co-founded D.E.E.P. (Developing Empowering Enhancing Poets through Poetry), a student organization for students who wanted to study poetry. She was also a writer clinician for organizations such as Covenant Youth Development and Youth Arts At Work. Naki has worked with artists Talib Kweli and Dwele. She also serves as co-host on the radio show “The Session” WXUT 88.3 FM. Naki also did work on the Tripple Croxx Entertainment production “The Signature: A Poetic Medley Show."
wn.com/Naki_Akarobettoe -
Nana Gbewonyo
Nana Gbewonyo (born December 11, 1980) is an actor who played the role of Junior Battle in the film Coach Carter that was released in January 2005. He was born in Accra, Ghana, but moved to California when he was three with his parents. He played college basketball for Washburn University in Kansas and Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He played a role in Gran Torino 2009
wn.com/Nana_Gbewonyo -
Nana Kuffour
Mohammed Tuah Khamis (born February 27, 1985 in Nyakrom) is a Ghanaian-American soccer player.
Kuffour was signed by D.C. United as a developmental player during the 2004 season, after having immigrated to the United States from Ghana and receiving citizenship. Before playing for United, Kuffour most recently played for Super Rainbows of Ghana. Kuffour was released by D.C. United in November 2005 and joined to Liberty Professionals FC after three years with the club signed for Accra Hearts of Oak SC on 18 October 2009. .
Kuffour was member of the Black Meteors.
Mohammed Tuah Khamis was born as (Nana Kwame Kuffour) and convited in 2006 to Islam,.
wn.com/Nana_Kuffour -
Nazr Mohammed
Nazr Tahiru Mohammed [NAW-zee] (born September 5, 1977) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. He plays the center position. He is 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and 250 lb (113.4 kg). He is aggressive in offensive rebounding and putbacks.
The son of an immigrant from Ghana, Mohammed was raised in Chicago and attended high school at Kenwood Academy. Mohammed entered the University of Kentucky in the fall of 1995 at a hefty 315 pounds, and saw little playing time during their NCAA Championship season. After slimming down for his sophomore year, Mohammed shared the starting center spot with Jamaal Magloire and was a key contributor in 1997, when the Cats were runners-up to Arizona. Mohammed would once again share the starting post position with Magloire in 1998, and once again they would bring the NCAA Championship home to Kentucky for the second time in three years.
After his junior year, Mohammed was faced with a decision on whether to come back to school or enter the draft, and ultimately decided to enter the 1998 NBA Draft. He was selected by the Utah Jazz in the first round, as the 29th pick overall. Utah traded his rights to the Philadelphia 76ers for a future first round pick, which would turn out to be Quincy Lewis in the 1999 NBA Draft. He would spend two and a half seasons in Philadelphia. He then played for the Atlanta Hawks through the middle of the 2004 season, at which point he went to the New York Knicks. Mohammed split the 2004–05 season between the Knicks and the Spurs (who acquired him in a trade for Malik Rose). In a combined 77 games for both teams, he averaged 9.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks per game. He won the 2005 NBA title with the San Antonio Spurs as a member of their starting lineup.
wn.com/Nazr_Mohammed -
Nigerien American
Nigerien Americans are Americans of Nigerien descent. There are a small community of African immigrants in the USA. There are communities in New York City and other places. Nigerien Americans speak several African languages, with Hausa and Djerma being the most spoken; they also speak French (as a second language) and English. Today most Nigerians immigrating to the United States are directed to this country by a U.S. Green Card. They try to escape poverty, unemployment, high taxes of your country, etc ... And provide them a good education for their children. Given the restrictions on emigration to Europe, most Nigerians that migrating go to the United States. Many of the Nigeriens who manage to save enough money in United States to have a better life back to Niger. However, unemployment and other economic and labor problems in your country prevent most Nigerians living in the U.S. and other countries return to Niger and must adapt to the new country in which they live.
Not to be confused with Nigerian Americans, who originate from Nigeria and are of different cultures.
wn.com/Nigerien_American -
Peter Mensah
Peter Mensah (born on 27 August 1959 in Accra, Ghana), is an English/Ghanaian actor, best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun and 300, and more recently on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance.
Mensah comes from an academic family. He was born in Ghana, to parents of the Ashanti people, but he moved to Hertfordshire, England, with his father (an engineer), his mother (a writer) and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah moved to Canada 11 years ago. He emigrated from Britain to see the world and it was a toss-up whether his destination would be Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first.
Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven, Final Destination, and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery.
wn.com/Peter_Mensah -
Prince Nana
Prince Nana Osei Bandoh is an American professional wrestler of Ghanaian extraction, better known by his ring name, Prince Nana. He has stated that he is an Ashanti prince.
Although Nana was born in the United States, he states that he is the son of an Ashanti tribe member with royal heritage and the heir to the throne of Ashanti in Ghana. When Nana was three, his family relocated to Ghana for five years, returning so that Nana could be educated in America. As a teenager, he relocated to New York City in America as an exchange student. In 1992, at the age of fifteen, Nana watched WrestleMania VIII, and was inspired by the WWF Championship match between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Ric Flair to become a wrestler. A year later, he wrote to the World Wrestling Federation and asked their advice as to which professional wrestling school he should attend. The WWF recommended that he train under Larry Sharpe, but Nana felt that Sharpe's school (in Westville, New Jersey) was too far away. Instead, Nana became a photographer for Johnny Rodz, who operated Gleason's Gym in New York. Nana worked for Rodz until he turned eighteen, when Rodz began training him as a wrestler. He debuted in 1996, wrestling in a church in Spanish Harlem.
wn.com/Prince_Nana -
Rhian Benson
Rhiannon Afua "Rhian" Benson (born 10 January 1977) is a Ghanaian-British soul and jazz singer and songwriter.
Benson was born in Accra, Ghana to a Welsh mother, who was a singer, and an Ashanti father, who was a guitarist, and she has a younger sister. She was raised in Ghana, India (where her family moved following a diplomatic posting of her father), and the United Kingdom, where she eventually settled. Benson began playing piano and guitar and writing songs and poetry at an early age. Before pursuing a career in music, she attended the London School of Economics and gained a degree in econometrics. She continued her education at Harvard University, before working at an investment bank.
Once back in the UK, she performed in small London clubs and was discovered by the Los Angeles-based record label, DKG Music. Benson moved to Los Angeles, California to record her debut album, Gold Coast, which was released in October 2003. She wrote all the songs on the album, having composed the music on guitar and keyboards, and co-produced it with producers Bob Power and James Poyser.
wn.com/Rhian_Benson -
Senegalese American
A Senegalese American is an American of Senegalese descent or a Senegalese who has American citizenship. In surveys of 2008, some 12,151 people claimed be of Senegalese descent in the United States. However, many African slaves exported to the United States were also Senegalese (together with other Africans that also came of their Senegalese ports), Senegal being one of the biggest contributor to the African American community in general. Thus many African Americans may also have some ancestors of this country.
wn.com/Senegalese_American -
Somali American
Somali Americans are American citizens and residents born in, or with ancestors from Somalia.
The first Somalis to arrive in the United States were sailors who came in the 1920s and settled in New York. In the late 1970s, more Somali immigrants followed suit. However, it was not until the 1990s when the Somali Civil War broke out that the majority of Somalis first arrived in the US.
The Somali community in the United States is the seventh largest in the world behind those of Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Djibouti, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively.
Current estimates of the number of Somali immigrants living in the United States vary widely, ranging from 35,760 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000) to 150,000 persons. According to 2010 American Community Survey data, there are approximately 85,700 people with Somali ancestry in the US. Of those, about 25,000 or one third live in Minnesota. Ohio, Washington and California have the next largest Somali communities, albeit much smaller in overall size.
wn.com/Somali_American -
Sudanese American
Sudanese Americans are Americans of Sudanese ancestry or a Sudanese who has American citizenship. Sudanese Americans can also include children born in America to an American parent and Sudanese parent. There is a community of 20,000 Sudanese Americans who have emigrated from their native country to the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s.
The largest Sudanese communities in the 2000 census were New York City, Detroit, Des Moines, Alexandria, Virginia in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Los Angeles and San Diego. However, since 2006, most Sudanese people had it Omaha (Nebraska). Sudanese Americans communities also are found in others cities such as Greensboro, NC, Houston, TX, Flint, MI, Washington Metropolitan Area and many other cities. Sudanese or Sudanese Americans came to America due political disagreements, others come for educational and vocation opportunities or for family reunification.
The most of Sudanese Americans are Muslims or Christians. However, many Sudanese tribes also live in the United States. Thus, in Omaha, Nebraska live about 8,500 Sudanese divided into ten tribes (including: Nuer, Dinka, Equatorians, Maubans and Nubians). Some Sudanese Americans may consider themselves Arab American if their ancestry came from northern Sudan.
wn.com/Sudanese_American -
Tunisian American
Tunisian Americans are American people of Tunisian heritage. Since 2005, they celebrate every May 27th the Tunisian American Day. The celebration includes the Community and its Heritage, enduring the Tunisian-American friendship.
For reasons of distance and language, prior to the arrival to Tunisia of the Peace Corps volunteers in the early 60's and Amideast in the 70's, there was not even an interest on the part of Tunisians to emigrate to the US. In the late 90's, however, with the passage of the "Diversity Visa" law, the number of Tunisians in America started to grow, reaching around 8,000 by the late 90's.
In 1999, the idea of building a Tunisian-American community was born; an impossible task, considering the dispersion of the community and the size of the country. Fortunately, at that time, the Internet and high-tech telecommunications started to really grow and evolve.
So, the strategy was to build a virtual community that would, in time, be merged with the offline community. By late 1999, way before Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, http://www.tunisiancommunity.org/ became "the Cultural Home" for Tunisians in America and the Tunisian Community Center, their institution. The modest website, with the help of several tech-savvy Tunisian volunteers over the years, became what is now a powerful, interactive Web presence.
wn.com/Tunisian_American -
Ugandan American
A Ugandan American is an American citizen descendant of Ugandan or a Ugandan who has American citizenship. The survey of 2008 counted 8,731 Ugandans in United States.
Due to restrictions on immigration from Africa and Asia, there was little migration from Uganda to the United States until the latter half of the 20th century.
In the 1960s there was a gradual growth of Ugandans that immigrated to North America largely for political reasons, and for many it was for further studies, predominantly graduate school. Immigration records from 1975 cite Ugandans separately from other Africans and show the arrival of 859 immigrants, most fleeing Idi Amin's terror. Of note is the fact that Afro Asian, a group encompassing all brown-skinned people, usually Indians, Pakistani, and Konkani of Goa, are counted in a separate category from Ugandans, although many of them came from Uganda. In 1976, 359 Ugandans arrived, and 241 came in 1977. Immigration fell to less than 150 each year in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a time of political stability in Uganda. In the 1980s, a steady and gradual growth of Ugandans in North America, particularly the US grew, some migrating on the much coveted DV -lottery visa, provided through the US federal government, for people around the world that would otherwise have no chance to migrate to the US to apply for a residency through a lottery system. The diversity lottery is conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
wn.com/Ugandan_American -
Visanthe Shiancoe
Visanthe Shiancoe ( /vɪˈʃɔːn ˈʃæŋkoʊ/ vi-SHAWN SHANG-koh; born June 18, 1980) is an American football tight end who currently is a Free Agent in the National Football League.
He played high school football for Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, gaining all-county honors competing at wide receiver, quarterback, and his current NFL position, tight end.
Shiancoe enjoyed a successful college football career at Morgan State University, playing in 30 games and receiving 52 passes for 1,001 yards.[citation needed] His senior year proved to be noteworthy, garnering both All-American Dream Team and All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 1st-team honors from the NFL Draft Report.[citation needed]
He was drafted in the third round (91st overall) in the 2003 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. Shiancoe played the first four years of his professional career with the New York Giants compiling 35 receptions for 253 yards and 3 touchdowns, predominantly in a backup role behind Jeremy Shockey.
wn.com/Visanthe_Shiancoe -
Xavier Adibi
Xavier Oyekola Adibi (born October 18, 1984 in Stillwater, Oklahoma) is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech. He has also played for the Minnesota Vikings.
Adibi attended and played high school football at Phoebus High School in Hampton, Virginia, and graduated in 2003.
He helped the Phantoms win their first state championship. Phoebus' first undefeated season came during Adibi's senior year where the Phantoms won their second consecutive state championship. Adibi rushed for 155 yards and four touchdowns in the 2002 state football game, while playing fullback, with future college teammate, D. J. Parker, as the quarterback.
Following his high school career, Adibi played in the 2003 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
Adibi played college football at Virginia Tech. As a redshirt freshman in 2004, Adibi backed up Mikal Baquee. He was injured during the first game against USC and returned for a Thursday night game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Against Georgia Tech, Adibi had a prolific game, making eight tackles, including two sacks. He had a key game-saving sack on a Georgia Tech fourth quarter scoring drive. Georgia Tech had an opportunity to ice the game away, but Adibi's sack of Reggie Ball forced a field goal and kept it a one-score game, which Virginia Tech would ultimately rally to win.
wn.com/Xavier_Adibi -
Zimbabwean American
Zimbabwean Americans are Americans of Zimbabwean descent. There are communities in California, Texas and other places.
There are various conflicting unofficial figures about the number of Zimbabweans in the US. The RAND Corporation estimated in 2000 that there were 100,000 in the state of New York alone. In contrast, a 2008 estimate from the Association of Zimbabweans Based Abroad put the population of Zimbabweans in the whole US at just 45,000. They make up just a small part of the Zimbabwean diaspora compared to the larger communities in South Africa and the United Kingdom. However, of Zimbabweans who have not yet emigrated but are considering it, a somewhat higher proportion state that the United States, rather than the United Kingdom, is their preferred destination; this may be due to harassment and discrimination which Zimbabweans have faced in the UK.
There is a small community of Zimbabweans in Chicago, perhaps 80 to 100 people, consisting primarily of former students at area universities. Other cities with Zimbabwean communities include Washington DC, New York City, Indianapolis, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Detroit.
wn.com/Zimbabwean_American
Send this Playlist by SMS
Email this Page
Ghanaian Americans Views
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:17
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
President Obama's visit to Ghana was seen as a first step of good will gesture to a continent that is mostly portrayed as the darkest place on earth. However the short visit should not be seen as anything more than a recognition that the continent exist at all.
http://wn.com/Ghanaian_Americans_Views
President Obama's visit to Ghana was seen as a first step of good will gesture to a continent that is mostly portrayed as the darkest place on earth. However the short visit should not be seen as anything more than a recognition that the continent exist at all.
Miss GHANA USA 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:16
- Updated: 16 Aug 2012
The 2nd Annual Miss Ghana USA (MGUSA) 2012 Beauty Pageant is set to be held on Friday July 27, 2012 at the DuSable Museum of African American History (740 East 56th Place Chicago, IL 60637). Festivities will include a Red Carpet event from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm followed by the Pageant show competition at 7:00 pm. Miss Ghana USA Vision Statement: To be recognized as a world class organization that consistently brings amazing women to the forefront and supports them as they work to achieve their individual goals in the context of their cultural roots. Miss Ghana USA Mission Statement: The Miss Ghana USA Beauty Pageant's mission is to find and promote exceptional women with a strong interest in education, humanitarian issues and the Ghanaian culture. The Miss Ghana USA Organization is pleased to bring to the public a platform of highly educated women of Ghanaian decent who will showcase their culture, talent and explain their ambitions and personal goals. The contestants will describe their year of service activities in both Ghana and America, if crowned the Queen of Miss Ghana USA. The following contestants are representing various regions of Ghana: Upper West Region Cynthia Nyemitei Plange Home town: Chicago IL Western Region Yvonne Quaicoe Home town: Greater Accra Region Nana Yaa Ampofo Home Town: Chicago IL Halimatu Toure Home town: Ghana Upper East Region Joyce Oppongwah Home town: New Jersey Eastern Region Nadia Agyepong Home town: Atlanta Georgia Ashanti Region Hilda ...
http://wn.com/Miss_GHANA_USA_2012
The 2nd Annual Miss Ghana USA (MGUSA) 2012 Beauty Pageant is set to be held on Friday July 27, 2012 at the DuSable Museum of African American History (740 East 56th Place Chicago, IL 60637). Festivities will include a Red Carpet event from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm followed by the Pageant show competition at 7:00 pm. Miss Ghana USA Vision Statement: To be recognized as a world class organization that consistently brings amazing women to the forefront and supports them as they work to achieve their individual goals in the context of their cultural roots. Miss Ghana USA Mission Statement: The Miss Ghana USA Beauty Pageant's mission is to find and promote exceptional women with a strong interest in education, humanitarian issues and the Ghanaian culture. The Miss Ghana USA Organization is pleased to bring to the public a platform of highly educated women of Ghanaian decent who will showcase their culture, talent and explain their ambitions and personal goals. The contestants will describe their year of service activities in both Ghana and America, if crowned the Queen of Miss Ghana USA. The following contestants are representing various regions of Ghana: Upper West Region Cynthia Nyemitei Plange Home town: Chicago IL Western Region Yvonne Quaicoe Home town: Greater Accra Region Nana Yaa Ampofo Home Town: Chicago IL Halimatu Toure Home town: Ghana Upper East Region Joyce Oppongwah Home town: New Jersey Eastern Region Nadia Agyepong Home town: Atlanta Georgia Ashanti Region Hilda ...
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 4426
- author: GhanaFou Entertainment
Derrick Ashong aka DNA the distinguished Ghanaian American artist, scholar, rapper and futurist speaking about the rise and rise of West African entertainment and its growing USA appeal at the MIT media Lab November 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:03
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/Derrick_Ashong_aka_DNA_the_distinguished_Ghanaian_American_artist,_scholar,_rapper_and_futurist_speaking_about_the_rise_and_rise_of_West_African_entertainment_and_its_growing_USA_appeal_at_the_MIT_media_Lab_November_2012
Growing up Ghanaian-American
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Two filmmakers tell the story of a Ghanaian-American teenager in 'Bronx Princess.'
http://wn.com/Growing_up_Ghanaian-American
Two filmmakers tell the story of a Ghanaian-American teenager in 'Bronx Princess.'
- published: 19 Nov 2009
- views: 210
- author: CNN
Ghanaian Marries an American
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Me and my wife in April 2011 in Ghana, Akosombo
http://wn.com/Ghanaian_Marries_an_American
Me and my wife in April 2011 in Ghana, Akosombo
- published: 12 Jun 2011
- views: 1507
- author: Steven Lyles
The Africa-America Institute 2009 - Ghana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
AAI and Ghana: Building Human Capacity through Genuine Partnership The Africa-America Institute (AAI) paid tribute to the People of Ghana at its 25th Annual Awards Gala, for the country's commitment to education as a vehicle to prosperity and building a sustainable democracy. By presenting them with the AAI Award for African National Achievement, AAI sought to highlight the Ghanaian peoples' determination to build and maintain a strong democratic nation, and their significant role in elevating Ghanas potential as an exemplar for other countries on the African Continent. Ghana was also recognized for achieving substantial progress in strengthening human capacity by making smart investments in education to spur socio-economic development and competition in a global economy.
http://wn.com/The_Africa-America_Institute_2009_Ghana
AAI and Ghana: Building Human Capacity through Genuine Partnership The Africa-America Institute (AAI) paid tribute to the People of Ghana at its 25th Annual Awards Gala, for the country's commitment to education as a vehicle to prosperity and building a sustainable democracy. By presenting them with the AAI Award for African National Achievement, AAI sought to highlight the Ghanaian peoples' determination to build and maintain a strong democratic nation, and their significant role in elevating Ghanas potential as an exemplar for other countries on the African Continent. Ghana was also recognized for achieving substantial progress in strengthening human capacity by making smart investments in education to spur socio-economic development and competition in a global economy.
- published: 11 Feb 2010
- views: 451
- author: AfricaAmericaInst
A GHANAIAN AMERICAN MUSICIAN EBO DADSON
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:22
- Updated: 14 Aug 2012
Ebo Dadson is a Ghanaian American Gospel and Jazz Artist in Chicago,Check me out on YouTube-Ebo Dadson or Eddiecob1 Channel and Facebook,-My Tel-773-216-2160 You're viewing and listening to the incredible versatile musician Ebo Dadson in chicago.Just keep away from a lot of friends and study to achieve your goal.My E-mail ebo.dadson@att.net
http://wn.com/A_GHANAIAN_AMERICAN_MUSICIAN_EBO_DADSON
Ebo Dadson is a Ghanaian American Gospel and Jazz Artist in Chicago,Check me out on YouTube-Ebo Dadson or Eddiecob1 Channel and Facebook,-My Tel-773-216-2160 You're viewing and listening to the incredible versatile musician Ebo Dadson in chicago.Just keep away from a lot of friends and study to achieve your goal.My E-mail ebo.dadson@att.net
- published: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 47
- author: Ebo Dadson
US Porn films and its effect on Ghana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:39
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
What happens when American porn ends up on the streets of Ghana. Its effect on African societies in general and how it sets back the fight against AIDS
http://wn.com/US_Porn_films_and_its_effect_on_Ghana
What happens when American porn ends up on the streets of Ghana. Its effect on African societies in general and how it sets back the fight against AIDS
- published: 06 Sep 2009
- views: 72179
- author: RaisMambo
Ghana Vlog #7 American girl crying at the beach (August 12 & 13)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:49
- Updated: 05 Sep 2012
We hit up the beach (which will happen again sooner or later), ate some Ghanaian food, and being sassy.
http://wn.com/Ghana_Vlog_7_American_girl_crying_at_the_beach_August_12_13
We hit up the beach (which will happen again sooner or later), ate some Ghanaian food, and being sassy.
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 634
- author: kcronaldo17
Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills addresses the Africa-America Institute
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 28 Aug 2012
Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills' pre-recorded address to the Africa-America Institute on the occasion of the institute's Gala in New York City, September 21, 2009
http://wn.com/Ghana's_President_John_Evans_Atta_Mills_addresses_the_Africa-America_Institute
Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills' pre-recorded address to the Africa-America Institute on the occasion of the institute's Gala in New York City, September 21, 2009
- published: 27 Sep 2009
- views: 5918
- author: wideirisprod
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING-Chicago Singing Band, Chicago, Illinois
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:17
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING-Chicago_Singing_Band,_Chicago,_Illinois
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 558
- author: nthbaidoo
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012- Gifty Duodu (The little Angel)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_Gifty_Duodu_The_little_Angel
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 1160
- author: nthbaidoo
Akua Akyaa Agyeman (Miss Ghana-USA 2011) Shows Her Talent @ The Pageant
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Akua Akyaa Agyeman is a Ghanaian-American born and raised in Chicago to Ghanaian parents, Bennett and Betty Agyeman. She was raised, along with three older siblings, deeply rooted in the Ghanaian community in Chicago, which has strongly impacted her. Her value systems, educational endeavors, and what she believes to be her life's work is linked to and guided by her identity as a Ghanaian woman in America. Akua Agyeman was crowned Miss Ghana-USA 2011 on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at the Pageant held at the Eisemann Performance Center, Richardson, TX. She gave a spectacular and classy performance while representing the Western Region of Ghana. With passion and elegance, she won the hearts of the general audience and judges with her amazing dance skills during the talent show. Check this video out...Enjoy!
http://wn.com/Akua_Akyaa_Agyeman_Miss_Ghana-USA_2011_Shows_Her_Talent_@_The_Pageant
Akua Akyaa Agyeman is a Ghanaian-American born and raised in Chicago to Ghanaian parents, Bennett and Betty Agyeman. She was raised, along with three older siblings, deeply rooted in the Ghanaian community in Chicago, which has strongly impacted her. Her value systems, educational endeavors, and what she believes to be her life's work is linked to and guided by her identity as a Ghanaian woman in America. Akua Agyeman was crowned Miss Ghana-USA 2011 on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at the Pageant held at the Eisemann Performance Center, Richardson, TX. She gave a spectacular and classy performance while representing the Western Region of Ghana. With passion and elegance, she won the hearts of the general audience and judges with her amazing dance skills during the talent show. Check this video out...Enjoy!
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 11633
- author: obaabea
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012- 1st Ghana Church Choir
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:37
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_1st_Ghana_Church_Choir
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 24 Jul 2012
- views: 788
- author: nthbaidoo
Reggie Rockstone - Eye mo de anaa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Classic video from Hiplife legend Reggie Rockstone museke.com Eye mo de anaa is from the Me na me kae album Reggie is popularly called the Godfather of Hiplife Produced by Kassa Records Video directed by Abraham Ohene Djan
http://wn.com/Reggie_Rockstone_Eye_mo_de_anaa
Classic video from Hiplife legend Reggie Rockstone museke.com Eye mo de anaa is from the Me na me kae album Reggie is popularly called the Godfather of Hiplife Produced by Kassa Records Video directed by Abraham Ohene Djan
- published: 22 Jan 2010
- views: 32354
- author: iamablackstar
Michael Blackson - America (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:57
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Michael Blackson (born November 28, 1972) is Ghanaian-American actor and comedian. He uses his Ghanaian and American life experiences in his stand up comedy routine in a slight Ghanaian accent Stand up career Having been inspired by the comedy styling of Eddie Murphy, Blackson developed his comedic talent in the unkind comedy clubs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beginning in 1992. Michael Blackson has performed in many well-known comedy competitions such as the 1992 USA Comedy Central Tour in Philadelphia, the 1993 Schlitz Malt Liquor Comedy Tour in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and the 1996 Urban Comedy Festival in New York City. In 1999-2000 Blackson also competed in the Laffapolooza Comedy Festival in Atlanta and the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition in Oakland, California in 2001. Acting career Michael Blackson moved up the acting ladder with his performance in the 2000 comedy film Next Friday, produced by Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision [1]. In 2005 he released his top-selling comedy sketch CD entitled Modasucka: Welcome to America [2]. Also in 2005, he made an appearance on, TV series 30 Rock, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO [3], and starred in a commercial for the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. In 2007, he was in the movie Repos with Master P (written and produced by Master P). In 2010, he appeared in BoB's "I'll Be In the Sky" music video. In 2011, he recently appeared on BET "The Mo'Nique Show" which his appearance had him trending on Twitter& ...
http://wn.com/Michael_Blackson_America_HQ
Michael Blackson (born November 28, 1972) is Ghanaian-American actor and comedian. He uses his Ghanaian and American life experiences in his stand up comedy routine in a slight Ghanaian accent Stand up career Having been inspired by the comedy styling of Eddie Murphy, Blackson developed his comedic talent in the unkind comedy clubs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beginning in 1992. Michael Blackson has performed in many well-known comedy competitions such as the 1992 USA Comedy Central Tour in Philadelphia, the 1993 Schlitz Malt Liquor Comedy Tour in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and the 1996 Urban Comedy Festival in New York City. In 1999-2000 Blackson also competed in the Laffapolooza Comedy Festival in Atlanta and the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition in Oakland, California in 2001. Acting career Michael Blackson moved up the acting ladder with his performance in the 2000 comedy film Next Friday, produced by Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision [1]. In 2005 he released his top-selling comedy sketch CD entitled Modasucka: Welcome to America [2]. Also in 2005, he made an appearance on, TV series 30 Rock, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO [3], and starred in a commercial for the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. In 2007, he was in the movie Repos with Master P (written and produced by Master P). In 2010, he appeared in BoB's "I'll Be In the Sky" music video. In 2011, he recently appeared on BET "The Mo'Nique Show" which his appearance had him trending on Twitter& ...
- published: 15 Sep 2012
- views: 16005
- author: Love4Comedy365
Global Diaspora Forum
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:44
- Updated: 19 May 2011
VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye talks to Rahama Wright, who is a Ghanaian-American and producer of Shea butter for Shea Yeleen, discusses her business and speaking at the forum.
http://wn.com/Global_Diaspora_Forum
VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye talks to Rahama Wright, who is a Ghanaian-American and producer of Shea butter for Shea Yeleen, discusses her business and speaking at the forum.
- published: 19 May 2011
- views: 502
- author: TV2Africa
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012 - Ist Ghana Youth choir, New York
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_Ist_Ghana_Youth_choir,_New_York
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 556
- author: nthbaidoo
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012 - Atlanta Church Choir
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_Atlanta_Church_Choir
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 684
- author: nthbaidoo
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012 - New Jersey Church Choir
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:21
- Updated: 23 Jul 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_New_Jersey_Church_Choir
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 256
- author: nthbaidoo
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012- New England Ghanaian SDA Church Choir,Worcester
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 25 Jul 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012 (Worcester Choir)
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_New_England_Ghanaian_SDA_Church_Choir,Worcester
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012 (Worcester Choir)
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 292
- author: nthbaidoo
NEW AMERICAN SEX PARTNER OF GHANA'S WOMANIZER VEEP, JOHN MAHAMA, POPS UP.mp4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:53
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Watch Phaedra Parks, the newly discovered lover of Ghana's Vice President, John Mahama talk about the time they spent together hot-knobbing in Ghana on an American Reality TV Show, the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Hot-knobbing according to the Urban Dictionary is the art of robbing heat on a man's balls. John Dramani Mahama, Ghana's Vice-President is known to be a high ranking Casanova who is reputed to have 13 children with 8 different women and who has gained wide notoriety with his escapades with various ladies including staff of his office. The attitude of Ghana's Vice-President is yet another example of how African Leaders are unable to live above reproach and use most of their official time on trivial personal issues like receiving calls from their lovers instead of developing their nations.
http://wn.com/NEW_AMERICAN_SEX_PARTNER_OF_GHANA'S_WOMANIZER_VEEP,_JOHN_MAHAMA,_POPS_UPmp4
Watch Phaedra Parks, the newly discovered lover of Ghana's Vice President, John Mahama talk about the time they spent together hot-knobbing in Ghana on an American Reality TV Show, the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Hot-knobbing according to the Urban Dictionary is the art of robbing heat on a man's balls. John Dramani Mahama, Ghana's Vice-President is known to be a high ranking Casanova who is reputed to have 13 children with 8 different women and who has gained wide notoriety with his escapades with various ladies including staff of his office. The attitude of Ghana's Vice-President is yet another example of how African Leaders are unable to live above reproach and use most of their official time on trivial personal issues like receiving calls from their lovers instead of developing their nations.
- published: 15 Feb 2012
- views: 27133
- author: wanchitv1
NORTH AMERICA GHANAIAN SDA CAMP MEETING 2012 - Queens Church choir, New York
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:12
- Updated: 24 Jul 2012
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
http://wn.com/NORTH_AMERICA_GHANAIAN_SDA_CAMP_MEETING_2012_Queens_Church_choir,_New_York
North America Ghanaian SDA Camp Meeting 2012 at Indiana University of Pensylvania from July18th - 22nd 2012
- published: 23 Jul 2012
- views: 201
- author: nthbaidoo
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Is Obama executing the neoconservative’s original plan? After making a fuss about the foolishness of the Iraq war during his inaugural Presidential campaign? After depositing a small river of American blood into Afghan soil and a mountain of American treasure into the pockets of corrupt “government” functionaries? ... It also produced the epiphenomenon—unremarkable to American hawks—of a multi-party civil conflict in neighboring Mali....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital ... He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... The US ambassador and about 40 others, including a number of Americans, were flown out of Bangui to Kenya, the officials said ... 516 Share ... News. Africa....(size: 19.5Kb)
photo: AP / K.M.Chaudary
27 Dec 2012
Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province ... He cannot contest an election until his 25th birthday. Show of strength ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
photo: AP
26 Dec 2012
News of defection comes as activists say 20 people, including eight children, have been killed by shelling in north of country. Assad’s forces are hitting back at a string of rebel advances across the country. Photograph. Abdalghne Karoof/REUTERS. The head of Syria's military police has defected from the army and declared allegiance to the uprising against the president, Bashar al-Assad, according to a video and a Syrian security source....(size: 3.4Kb)
Peace FM Online
23 Nov 2012
In a move that ultimately puts African music on the global map, sensational Ghanaian-American artiste Jay Ghartey has completed work on his latest single, which features the crown-princess of Ugandan music, Juliana Kanyomozi ... musical conventions that makes it different from the typical Hiplife flavour many Ghanaian music-lovers are exposed to....(size: 2.9Kb)
Peace FM Online
22 Sep 2012
Real Talk features singer, Q with production work by Ghanaian producer, Ceedi ... Wayo is touted by some Ghanaian rap connoisseurs as the next big star to put Ghanaian music on the world music map. From the stables of the Ghanaian American Goodfellas Records, the multi-talented rapper and lyricist has been described by many as one of the new generation emcee that Africa has been waiting for....(size: 2.5Kb)
New York Daily News
02 Aug 2012
Free. 42nd St. and Sixth Ave ... 3-6 p.m ... $8 ... Blitz the Ambassador, a Ghanaian-American hip-hop artist, will perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s R&B Festival at MetroTech ... ‘NATIVE SOUNDS DOWNTOWN.’ The National Museum of the American Indian celebrates its upcoming exhibit “Up Where We Belong ... Syfy Movies with a View presents “Wet Hot American Summer,” the 2001 comedy starring Janeane Garofalo and Paul Rudd, at Brooklyn Bridge Park ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
Joy Online
10 Jul 2012
Joy Online
05 Jun 2012
Many of the associations original members, most of them immigrants, have moved back to Ghana or died, but they have not been replaced by their assimilated, American-born offspring or newly arrived Ghanaians ... They are more American than Ghanaian, he said ... Ampah Sahara is one of the youngest members of the group and is trying to use his relative youth to attract young Ghanaians and Ghanaian-Americans to the organization....(size: 7.1Kb)
Joy Online
04 Jun 2012
Many of the associations original members, most of them immigrants, have moved back to Ghana or died, but they have not been replaced by their assimilated, American-born offspring or newly arrived Ghanaians ... They are more American than Ghanaian, he said ... Ampah Sahara is one of the youngest members of the group and is trying to use his relative youth to attract young Ghanaians and Ghanaian-Americans to the organization....(size: 4.0Kb)
The New York Times
04 Jun 2012
Many of the association’s original members, most of them immigrants, have moved back to Ghana or died, but they have not been replaced by their assimilated, American-born offspring or newly arrived Ghanaians ... “They are more American than Ghanaian,” he said ... youth to attract young Ghanaians and Ghanaian-Americans to the organization....(size: 9.4Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
01 Jun 2012
Americans’ wariness of deep thinking has deep roots ... As this indicates, American philosophy is closely wedded to the principles of democracy, as it is to “cosmopolitanism,” which has been examined by the Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and is based on recognizing obligations to others. How willing Americans are to embrace such obligations is open to debate, and Romano might be overly optimistic about this....(size: 3.7Kb)
Stereogum
01 Jun 2012
Merrill Garbus's unhinged yawp turns out to be just about ideal for Afrobeat. The Red Hot Organization and the (RED) initiative are currently teaming up to release (RED) Hot + Fela, a new fundraising Fela Kuti tribute compilation. And on the comp's version of "Lady," tUnE-yArDs teams up with Roots drummer/bandleader ?uestlove, Beninoise singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, and Ghanaian-American rapper Akua Naru ... Listen below ... Beck... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
Ghana Business News
17 Apr 2012
It believes that the government will now be able to meet the nutritional needs of Ghanaians and American biotechnology companies will be able to sell their seeds and agriculture products in Ghana ... “We believe that American companies that produce high quality biotech foods and seeds will be able to sell in Ghana to meet the needs of Ghanaians,” he added....(size: 4.7Kb)
Peace FM Online
09 Mar 2012
He further disclosed that Ghanaian American-born music producer, Supa Sam, who has worked with international stars like Puff Diddy and Mase, has pledged to assist Ghanaian musicians to develop their talents ... Black was an industry person with a good track record in the music scene and had worked with a number of American-based Ghanaian musicians....(size: 3.4Kb)
Seattle Times
22 Oct 2011
"I don't have bodyguards clearing traffic or tailors stitching my clothes ... Ethiopian gathering ... You're very famous." ... A receiving line of Ghanaian Americans forms to greet them ... You show respect," says Frederick Quaye, the boy's father and a Ghanaian American who served in the U.S ... The king and the queen mother hail from royal families, but this is America, so the Ashanti executive council held elections in the area's Ghanaian community ... ....(size: 6.7Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
19 Oct 2011
A receiving line of Ghanaian Americans forms to greet them ... You show respect,” says Frederick Quaye, the boy’s father and a Ghanaian American recently back from serving in the U.S ... The king and the queen mother hail from royal families, but this is America, so the Ashanti executive council decided to hold elections in the area’s Ghanaian community....(size: 23.8Kb)
Main article: African immigrants to the United States
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total population | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghanaian Americans 86,918 [1] |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regions with significant populations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Boston, MA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI, Newark, NJ, Providence, RI, Columbus, OH, Worcester, MA, and Springfield, MA areas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
American English · English (Ghana) · Akan · Ga–Dangme · Dagbani |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Related ethnic groups | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghanaian Americans are citizens of both the Republic of Ghana and the United States or who are of Ghanaian heritage or were born in Ghana or a person whose ancestors were Ghanaian and immigrated to the United States of America and children of Ghanaians born in the United States.
Contents |
History[link]
Early history[link]
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves. Typically, the product of wars, many slaves were people sold to Europeans, although West African slavery was much different from American chattel slavery.[3] Although slaves came from a number of locations on the African continent, the likelihood of an African-American or any Black person from the diaspora having at least some ancestry in Ghana is relatively high.
Recent Immigration[link]
Ghanaians began arriving in the United States en masse during the 1950s and 1960s amid the Civil Rights and anti-Imperialism era. Ghanaians such as Kwame Nkrumah were taught at American universities and worked with black American leaders for the rights of Black People worldwide. Notable African American intellectuals and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X used early Ghana as a symbol of black achievement. Most immigrants from Ghana who came to the United States were (and are) students who came to get a better education. Thus, most of the early Ghanaian immigrants planned on using the education acquired in the United States to better Ghana. However, many Ghanaians that migrated in the 1980s and 1990s, came to get business opportunities. In difficult economic times the number of Ghanaians who emigrated to the United States was small. However, when these economic problems were paralyzed, they saved money to emigrate to the United States.[4]
Demography[link]
According to the 2000 Census there are 86,918 Ghanaian Americans living in the United States. Cities with large populations include (in order of size): Atlanta; Chicago; Detroit; Washington, D.C.; The Bronx in New York City; Newark, New Jersey; Providence, Rhode Island; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio, and Maryland among others.
Education[link]
Ghanaian immigrants arrive with educational statistics similar to Nigerian Americans and other relatively successful African Immigrants. This is attributable to Ghana's coastal location and British colonization which created an English speaking school system. Although the numbers are small, Ghanaians are well represented in universities across the United States. Schools such as Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have groups specifically devoted to Ghanaian students, in addition to general African student associations.
While educational attainment is high in the Ghanaian American community, the most recent arrivals come with the U.S. government's stipulation that they must attend university, many of them start businesses to overcome the disparity of finding a job in the United States. Ghanaians typically live in less segregated areas and move to more suburban locations as their income rises.
As the flow of immigrants from Ghana continues, more Ghanaians are seeking to stay in the United States to pursue the "American Dream". This is frequently criticized because the immigration of skilled, educated Ghanaians creates a brain drain in their home country. Many of the newest Ghanaians in American universities are not new arrivals, but the children of established Ghanaian Americans in the United States. Ghanaians in the United States do contribute millions of dollars in remittances and within time may become more directly involved in investing in Ghanaian companies.
Languages and culture[link]
The Ghanaian Americans speak 3 languages: Akan, Ga–Dangme and Dagbani, often also speaking English. The Ghanaians have an easier time adapting to life in United States than other immigrants because their homeland of Ghana have the English language as the official language and is spoken by the majority of Ghana's population. Currently, the majority of Ghanaians are Christian Americans (mostly Protestant). [4]
Notable Ghanaian Americans[link]
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ US Census Bureau, 2000, Ghanaian-American
- ^ US Census Bureau, International Religious Freedom Report 2009, Ghanaian-American
- ^ The Slave Trade
- ^ a b EveryCulture — Ghanaian-Americans Posted by Drew Walker. Retrieved December 10, 2011, to 12:04
External links[link]
|
|||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
http://wn.com/Ghanaian_American
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_American
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
File:Derrick Ashong-DNA.jpg
Derrick Ashong
Derrick N. Ashong, also known as "DNA", (born 1975 in Accra, Ghana), is a musician, artist, activist, and entrepreneur.
Contents |
Background[link]
Born in Accra, Ghana in 1975, Derrick Ashong is the son of a pediatrician.[1] He attended school in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Voorhees, New Jersey[2] before attending Harvard University in 1997 through a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, where he studied Afro-American studies and was awarded the Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis. He returned to Harvard and is currently studying for a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Afro-American studies.[2] Ashong was a founding member of the Harvard Black Alumni Society.[3]
Career[link]
Arts[link]
Ashong's musical career started while at Harvard. He produced a musical entitled Songs We Can't Sing, for which he won awards,[4] before forming a band called "Black Rose". The band later became known as Soulfège. Ashong has worked with such established artists as Debbie Allen, Janet Jackson, & Bobby McFerrin, and is MC and leader of the pan-African band Soulfège, under the name "DNA", producing works that have aired globally via outlets including MTV Africa, MNet Africa and BBC World Service.[2]
In 1997, Ashong had a role in the Steven Spielberg-produced movie Amistad,[1] playing the character Buakei, a role he gained through attending an open audition in New York.[5] He also appeared in a 2006 documentary about the Angola 3, entitled 3 Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation.[6] Ashong founded a talent agency, ASAFO Productions.[7]
Ashong is currently the host of The Stream on Al Jazeera English.
Public roles[link]
Derrick Ashong has lectured on musicology, the free market, and individualism at over a hundred institutions in the United States, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia, including the World Music Expo WOMEX in 2003 in Spain,[3] and is the author of FREE THIS CD!!! - The FAM Manifesto - a text outlining the philosophy of open source music.[4]
Ashong reached prominent media attention when a YouTube video of him speaking on Barack Obama's campaign to gain the Democratic nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Surprising the interviewer who expected a short soundbite (perhaps based on Ashong's casual appearance), Ashong gave a measured and protracted analysis of Obama's campaign.[8] The video has been viewed more than a million times.[1]
He has recently founded a media company specialising in niche advertising, called Take Back the Mic.[1]
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Carr, David (2008-03-17). "More Than a Sound Bite, This Clip Has Some Teeth". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/business/media/17carr.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=media&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ a b c "DNA biography". Soulfege. http://www.soulfege.com/bios/dnabio.php. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ a b "Has this young Ghanaian man won the election for Barack Obama?". Click Afrique. 2008-02-23. http://www.clickafrique.com/Magazine/ST010/CP0000002726.aspx. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ a b "Derrick Ashong". The Lavin Agency. http://www.thelavinagency.com/usa/derrickashong.html. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ Speedie, Sam (1997-12-11). "Derrick Ashong: Actor, Musician". Harvard Gazette. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/12.11/DerrickAshongAc.html. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Angola 3". 2006. http://www.angola3.tv/. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Adapting to the Beat: The Music Industry in Flux". Harvard University. 2004-11-13. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rap/uploads/30/rapfallconf.doc. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "A Declaration on Independents". The Economist. 2008-02-14. http://www.economist.com/node/10697065. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Official Soulfège website
- ASAFO MEDIA website
- Free this CD
- Derrick Ashong article on Goodmagazine.com
- Ashong/Obama YouTube Video
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ashong, Derrick |
| Alternative names | DNA |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 1975 |
| Place of birth | ACCRA GHANA |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Derrick_Ashong
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Ashong
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
(Reginald Osei, the Godfather of Hiplife) is a rapper of Ghanaian descent, born in Ghana but lived his early years in the United States. He has been living in Ghana continuously since he pioneered the Hip-Life movement in 1994. He pioneered the Hiplife art form and has played an important role in the development of this uniquely African genre in Ghana's capital Accra. He raps in Twi and English.[1] In 2004, Rockstone won the Kora Award for the best African Video and he performed in front of a 50,000 person crowd in Ghana, together with Shaggy.[2] In 2006 he recorded a track with the Jamaican Dancehall singer Beenie Man called 'Chukku Chakka' (in reference to Rockstone's 1999 hit, 'Eye Mo De Anaa', which sampled Fela Kuti). Reggie Rockstone is the Son of legendary Fashion designer, Ricky 'Ricci' Osei (Saint Osei).
Albums[link]
Rockstone recorded for albums for the Kassa Records label and one for MixerPot:
- Makaa Maka (I Said It Because I Said It), 1997
- Me Na Me Kae (I Was The One Who Said It), 1999
- Me Ka (I Will Say), 2000
- Last show, 2004
- Reggiestration, 2010
References[link]
- ^ BBC: "Accra reclaims hip-hop", 4 November 2003
- ^ BBC Radio One: "Ghanaian artists you'll be hearing across Ras' shows"
External links[link]
- [1] Most Popular Site for Ghana Music
- Ghana Music.com articles on Reggie Rockstone
- Reggie Rockstone info, lyrics, audio, etc
- Interview with Reggie Rockstone about his life, and music
- Videos on YouTube
- Reggie Rockstone Reggie Rockstone HomePage on Ghana Base Music
- [http://livingthehiplife.haverford.edu A feature film documentary centering around Reggie Rockstone]
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rockstone, Reggie |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Rapper |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Reggie_Rockstone
Related pages:
http://de.wn.com/Reggie Rockstone
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Rockstone
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
 |
This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. It includes attribution to IMDb, which may not be a reliable source for biographical information. Please help by adding additional, reliable sources for verification. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (January 2011) |
| Michael Blackson | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1972-11-28) November 28, 1972 (age 39) Ghana |
| Other names | Click-Click, Boy, Mike Blackson, Michael K. Blackson |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Michael Blackson (born November 28, 1972) is Ghanaian-American actor and comedian. He uses his Ghanaian and American life experiences in his stand up comedy routine in a slight Ghanaian accent. Blackson has been called the most original foreign stand-up comic in the country.
Contents |
Stand up career[link]
Having been inspired by the comedy styling of Eddie Murphy Blackson developed his comedic talent in the unkind comedy clubs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beginning in 1992. Michael Blackson has performed in many well-known comedy competitions such as the 1992 USA Comedy Central Tour in Philadelphia, the 1993 Schlitz Malt Liquor Comedy Tour in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and the 1996 Urban Comedy Festival in New York City. In 1999-2000 Blackson also competed in the Laffapolooza Comedy Festival in Atlanta and the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition in Oakland, California in 2001.
Acting career[link]
Michael Blackson moved up the acting ladder with his performance in the 2000 comedy film Next Friday, produced by Ice Cube's film production company Cubevision [1]. In 2005 he released his top-selling comedy sketch CD entitled Modasucka: Welcome to America [2]. Also in 2005, he made an appearance on, TV series 30 Rock, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO [3], and starred in a commercial for the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central. In 2007, he was in the movie Repos with Master P (written and produced by Master P). In 2010, he appeared in B.o.B's "I'll Be In the Sky" music video. In 2011, he recently appeared on BET "The Mo'Nique Show" which his appearance had him trending on Twitter& also going on his third appearance on TBS Series Are We There Yet. In 2011, Michael recently starred on Starz's Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up which had 3 million views on Youtube and Showtime's Shaquille O'Neal All Star Comedy Jam plus he is currently headlining Shaq All Star Comedy Jam Tour. Blackston appeared on the Judge Joe Brown show in 2011 as a defendant for not showing up for a scheduled gig. He lost the case.
Film and television appearances[link]
- Judge Joe Brown, 2011
- Repos, 2007
- BET Awards, 2005
- P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy, 2005
- Dave Chapelle Show Commercial, 2005
- Nelly "Err Time" Music Video Cameo, 2005
- Junior M.A.F.I.A., Music Video Cameo, 2005.
- 30 Rock, 2005
- BET Club Comicview, 1993–2004
- Live In Hollywood, UPN & FOX, in 2003-04
- Freeway "Flipside", Music Video Cameo, 2003.
- Showtime [4] in Harlem, 2003
- Philly's Most Wanted "Please Don’t Mind" Music Video
- Next Friday, Newline Cinema, 2000
- BET ComicView Grandstand Competition, 2000–2008
- ATL, 2008
- My American Nurse 2, 2010
- B.o.B. "I'll Be In The Sky", Music Video Cameo, 2010
- Are We There Yet?, 2011
- Get Money (2011)
- The Mo'Nique Show, 2011
- 2011 Starz Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up
- 2011 Showtime Shaq's All Star Comedy Jam
References[link]
- http://www.michaelblackson.com
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085837
- http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shaquille-oneal-presents-all-star-comedy-jam---live-from-dallas-debuts-on-demand-93137844.html
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1887522/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085837/filmotype
- http://www.starz.com/originals/MartinLawrencePresents1stAmendmentStandUp/Ep410CortneyGeeMarkVieraMichaelBlackson
- http://caentertainment.com/bios/MichaelBlacksonbio.htm
- For Inquiries contact Moses Jean-Pierre @infinityvibes@aol.com
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Blackson, Michael |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | November 28, 1972 |
| Place of birth | Ghana |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Michael_Blackson
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackson
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
More Videos
Wiki Summary
Ghanaian Americans are citizens of both the Republic of Ghana and the United States or who are of Ghanaian heritage or were born in Ghana or a person whose ancestors were Ghanaian and immigrated to the United States of America and children of Ghanaians born in the United States.
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves. Typically, the product of wars, many slaves were people sold to Europeans, although West African slavery was much different from American chattel slavery. Although slaves came from a number of locations on the African continent, the likelihood of an African-American or any Black person from the diaspora having at least some ancestry in Ghana is relatively high.
Ghanaians began arriving in the United States en masse during the 1950s and 1960s amid the Civil Rights and anti-Imperialism era. Ghanaians such as Kwame Nkrumah were taught at American universities and worked with black American leaders for the rights of Black People worldwide. Notable African American intellectuals and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X used early Ghana as a symbol of black achievement. Most immigrants from Ghana who came to the United States were (and are) students who came to get a better education. Thus, most of the early Ghanaian immigrants planned on using the education acquired in the United States to better Ghana. However, many Ghanaians that migrated in the 1980s and 1990s, came to get business opportunities. In difficult economic times the number of Ghanaians who emigrated to the United States was small. However, when these economic problems were paralyzed, they saved money to emigrate to the United States.
