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"To Ghana", the poem This poem was read to the Great Asantehene at the UNESCO Slave Atlantic Project in Ghana in mid-March. It traces the ancestral ties between the people in the United States Virgin Islands and the Akan nation in Ghana. The Great Asantehene of Ghana died on March 25th 1999. |
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Edgar Lake's poem "To Ghana" appears in Presence Africaine vol.#160. To the right of the poet's photo above, is a copy of an official statement from the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Charles W. Turnbull.
Poets Are Long Distance Runners Too--An Interview With Edgar Lake
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