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  Here’s the special Kente that has been worn since 1830 by seven Asante kings including Otumfuo

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Historians submit the ancestors of the Akan lived in the open country of modern north-western Ghana and north-eastern Ivory Coast in the basin of the Black Volta. Known to speak the Twi language, historians...

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  The significant role of kola nuts among the Igbo people

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  For literature students in Africa’s secondary schools, Chinua Achebe’s account of breaking kola in the novel Things Fall Apart was an eye opener. He noted among the Igbo in Southeastern Nigeria,...

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  Why the NBA’s all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar converted to Islam at 24

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, says he took to Islam to manifest his African history, culture and beliefs. Already a star man at the University of California, Los Angeles...

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  The fascinating history and culture of the Ewe in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Numbering over six million strong, the Ewe people inhabiting southern Togo, southern Benin, southwest Nigeria, and south-eastern parts of the Volta Region of Ghana are an ethnic group with a patrilineal...

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  For daring to apply to Ole Miss, Clennon Washington King Jr. landed in an asylum

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Few men were as eccentric and resolute in their rightness as Clennon Washington King Jr. By some accounts, he was the first African-American man to run for the office of President of the United States...

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  Denied England’s soccer team call-up over color, campaign intensifies for Jack Leslie statue

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  The name Jack Leslie may not ring a bell, but he was a great soccer man and despite dying in 1988, there’s a campaign for a statue to be erected in his honor. On the strength of his skill and love...

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