Tag: Ghanaians in America

Opinion

What we have to lose with Trump: Honor for Africa and the diaspora
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By Travis L. Adkins | The Grio

Four years ago, Donald Trump asked Black voters, “What do you have to lose?” As a foreign policy professional with a focus on Africa and its diaspora, it is clear that we have lost much. The defining elements of President Trump’s foreign policy posture toward Africa, its diaspora and other communities of color have mirrored his domestic posture. Trump failed to engage them in positive and constructive ways and consistently called into question the intelligence, legitimacy, worthiness of millions of people at home and abroad. 

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African Food

Fudena: West African Food, But Make It Fast-Casual
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With Fudena, Ruth Nakaar is betting that Ghanaian jollof rice and Caribbean curried goat can, one day, be as ubiquitous as kale caesar salads and conveyor belt pizza, if given the chance.

by ALEX TEWFIK |PhillyMag

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Entertainment

7 African artists share their feelings on the glory — and missteps — of Beyoncé’s Black is King
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By Amanda Parris  |  CBC

Of all the life-altering and terrifying changes that have occurred in 2020, one of the more fascinating shifts has been happening in celebrity culture. Stars have always been placed on a pedestal, and now that pedestal’s being shaken. 

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African Food

Jollof Wars | What’s the Difference Between Ghana and Nigeria’s Recipes
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The rivalry between Nigerian and Ghanaian styles of jollof is a (mostly lighthearted) debate among the West African diaspora

by Jiji Majiri Ugboma  Photography by Clay Williams | Eater

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Entertainment

Shatta Wale | Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo paid for video shoot trip with Beyoncé
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By Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi | Peacefmonline.com

Dancehall musician, Shatta Wale has disclosed that the Akufo-Addo government arranged an all-expense paid trip for him to go to the United States and shoot the music video of ”Already” with American music icon, Beyoncé.

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Uncategorized

Adam Demuyakor | This 31-Year-Old Ghanaian-American Venture Capitalist Has Bet $12 Million On Real Estate And Diversity
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By David Jeans | Forbes Staff

As institutional landlords grapple with vacant buildings, and real estate startups fight for survival, one 31-year-old venture capitalist is betting his firm on the category bouncing back. Stealth until now, Los Angeles-based VC firm Wilshire Lane Partners has invested $12 million in property tech startups in the past 10 months, says founding partner Adam Demuyakor, even as the spread of Covid-19 has battered the category.

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Politics

Kojo Asamoa-Caesar |Ghana Diaspora PAC endorses for U.S. Congress
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By GhanaWeb

Ghana Diaspora PAC recently endorsed Oklahoma educator and community leader Kojo Asamoa-Caesar’s run for United States Congress. Asamoa-Caesar made history as the first Ghanaian American nominee for U.S. Congress in June after winning the Democratic primary for Oklahoma Congressional District 1.

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Immigration

100 Ghanaians to be deported from USA
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BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman | Graphic Online

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has told Parliament that 22 Ghanaians are currently in the process of being deported from the United States of America (USA) for breaching the immigration laws of that country. She said they were part of 100 Ghanaians on the list of persons who were at different stages of removal from the USA.

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Achievements

Dr. Theo Nyame | Ghanaian-born Plastic Surgeon named 2020 Top Doctor Award winner by Charlotte Magazine
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By Ebimo Amungo

Dr. Theo Nyame, a Ghanaian-born Plastic Surgeon has been named one of the honorees of the Top Doctor Award by Charlotte Magazine. This is the second year in a row that the Harvard Medical School trained doctor has been named Top Plastic Surgeon in the Charlotte area by the magazine.

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Opinion

The Blindspot : Owning my African Privilege in a racialized America
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By Ehui Osei-Mensah | black African woman

Before I moved to America, I was simply Ehui Nyatepe-Coo. Truthfully, other qualifiers preceded me thanks to my parents’ professional and social networks, the school I attended and occasionally by my academic achievements. I don’t remember ever being referred to by ethnic group though, which is a common identifier in Ghana.

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Opinion

Who is black in America? Ethnic tensions flare between black Americans and black immigrants.
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The everyday experience of the Black man has been brought to focus by recent happenings in America. This age of the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to fore the question of who is black in America. This article published in October 2018 spotlighted the growing tension between African-Americans who are descended from slaves and black Americans immigrants with a different heritage.

by Valerie Russ   | Philadelphia Inquirer

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Achievements, Immigration

2020 Great American Immigrants Awards | Eight Africans named among honorees by Carnegie Corporation of New York
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By Ebimo Amungo

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has released its annual list of Great American Immigrants and among the 2020 awardees are eight African immigrants born in Nigeria, Eritrea, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan and Ghana, as well as a Canadian born by Ghanaian parents.

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Education

Why Sub-Saharan African Immigrants to America Are the Most Educated
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By Joshua Eferighe | OZY

Growing up, Thomas Adetomiwa wasn’t too keen on his dad’s origin story of how he got to the U.S. from Nigeria. He’d often tell Adetomiwa how his acceptance into the University of Houston meant that he’d be the first person in their family to come to America, and how he had to simultaneously work four jobs while sending money back home to his grandmother and brothers. 

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Sports

Derrick Otim : English-born Ghanaian Footballer drowns in Lake Keowee in South Carolina
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by Dave Fraser | The Sun

FORMER Nottingham Forest star Derrick Otim has died aged 24. The English-born Ghanaian star drowned in Lake Keowee in South Carolina, USA – say reports in America.

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Immigration

Kwame Asante: Ghanaian joins other immigrants in Drive-thru ceremony to become American citizens
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by Steve Hartman | CBS

In America, you can get almost anything in a drive-thru – now, including one very happy spiel: The oath of allegiance to become a U.S. citizen.

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Achievements, Appointments

Caroline Adzogble : Ghanaian educationist appointed ambassador for Millersville University, Pennsylvania
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By Myjoyonline   

Millersville University in Pennsylvania, USA, has appointed Ghanaian educationist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Caroline Esinam Adzogble as an ambassador. This comes on the heels of the institution’s quest to boost their marketing and recruitment efforts to increase and diversify the multicultural numbers.

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Politics

Kojo Asamoa-Caesar: Meet the first Ghanaian-American to run for U.S. Congress
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By myjoyonline

Kojo Asamoa-Caesar has become the first Ghanaian-American to be nominated by a major American political party to run for the U.S Congress. The first-generation American won the nomination of the Democratic Party in the primaries for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, Tulsa, and is set to challenge Republican party incumbent, Kevin Hern, in the general elections.

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Achievements

Nigerians, Somalian, Rwandan and Ghanaian among recipients of Canada’s Vanier and Banting Awards
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By Ebimo Amungo

Four Nigerians, a Somalian, a Ghanaian and a Rwandan are among researchers announced as the 2020-2021 recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, Canada’s most prized awards for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, respectively.

Vanier Scholarships are valued at $50,000 per year for three years during doctoral studies, while Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are worth $70,000 per year for two years.

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Uncategorized

Chipper Cash: African payment startup founded by Ghanaian and Ugandan raises $13.8M in San Francisco
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By Jake Bright | TechCrunch

African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally. The raise caps an event-filled run for the San Francisco-based payments company, founded two years ago by Ugandan Ham Serunjogi and Ghanaian Maijid Moujaled.

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Entertainment

Sam Richardson: Comedy’s hidden gem
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Sam Richardson is a rising star with a dual heritage. Born to an African American father and a Ghanaian mother, Richardson spent his childhood shuttling between the United States and Ghana. In this report by Stuart Heritage in The Guardian Sam Richardson talks about his career and his latest film, HookUp.

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Ancestry

Ghana Minister Invites African-Americans to Re-settle in Africa If They Feel Unwanted in the U.S.
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BY BRENDAN COLE | Newsweek

The debate about race following the killing of George Floyd has reverberated across the Atlantic Ocean, spurring the tourism minister of Ghana to appeal to its diaspora, including in the U.S., to “leave where you are not wanted,” and return home.

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Opinion

Why were US Democrats wearing Ghana’s kente cloth?
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By BBC

When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on social media only wanted to talk about one thing: what they were wearing. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped in scarves made from a cloth of colourful geometric Ghanaian designs called kente.

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Covid 19

Covid-19: 41 Ghanaians Evacuated From USA arrive Accra
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By ModernGhana

Some 41 Ghanaians who were in Washington DC, USA, have arrived in Ghana. Most of them were students who went on an exchange program sponsored by the State Department of the United States of America.

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African Food

Josephine Oteng-Appiah | Ghanaian-born chef is set to introduce Spicy fried chicken, Ghana-style, to Norfolk, Virginia
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By MATTHEW KORFHAGE | THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 

Soon, Norfolk will be home to a kind of restaurant rare in America — a casual and friendly lunch counter devoted to the West African flavors of Ghana. At Yendidi restaurant in Norview Heights, Ghanaian-born chef Josephine Oteng-Appiah plans to serve the tomato-rich jollof rice stews, spiced beef and plantains, and vibrant grilled fish she grew up with — along with a whole new world of flavors she’s learned since moving to America.

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Uncategorized

Pearl Amoako: The Ghanaian Serving as Food Boss on a US Naval base
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by Nathaniel Crabbe | YEN

Ghanaian-born Chief Warrant Officer Two (CWO2), Pearl Amoako, has become a force within the US Navy, currently serving as the Food Service Officer at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. As the Food Service Officer, she is responsible for feeding all military personnel and civilians at the base.

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Entertainment

Ghanaian Group, Womba Africa, holds tight to ‘America’s Got Talent’ dreams
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By TRACY SCHUHMACHER | ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE

Just four months ago, the dreams of the musicians in the African drumming troupe Womba Africa felt tantalizingly close. With little money in their pockets, they had moved from Ghana to Rochester. They had found a place to live and were adjusting to life in America. Word had spread that the energetic cultural group was in town, and they were getting booked to play at schools, libraries and festivals.

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Arts

Ghanaian artist, Amoako Boafo, Is Navigating Art-World Success While Lifting up the African Diaspora
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Harley Wong | Artsy

Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo has experienced a meteoric rise in the art world over the past year. Known for large-scale portraits of Black subjects rendered in bold, gestural strokes, Boafo has only gained momentum in 2020. Recently, in April 2020, he donated a painting, Aurore Iradukunda (2020), to an online benefit auction supporting the Museum of the African Diaspora during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The painting sold in early May for $190,000, nearly six times its $35,000 estimate.

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Music

Ghanaian rap star, Kwaw Kese, mulls seeking assylum In US
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By Francis Addo | ModernGhana

Ghanaian rapper Kwaw Kese says he is thinking of seeking asylum in the United States of America, where he is currently stuck because of the closure of the country’s borders and airports as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to him, he has given himself up to the end of the month to concretise that decision.

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Covid 19, News

Covid-19: 33 Ghanaians Have Died In New York – Ghana’s US Ambassador
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Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Baffour Adjei Bawuah has disclosed that a lot Ghanaians have died from COVID-19 in that country.

“Quite a number of Ghanaians have been affected and indeed we have 33 people who have been verified to have died from the disease in New York alone,” he said.

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Giving Back

Upper East community in US presents medical supplies to GHS
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By Vincent Amenuveve

The Upper East Community of Ghana (UPEC) in the United States of America has presented medical supplies and hygiene materials to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region to help fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The items valued at about US$6,000 include 100 packets comprising 10,000 pieces of hand gloves,1,000 pieces of “FFP2” respirators, 30 pieces of face shields, one infrared thermometer and 20 gallons of hand sanitizers.

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