Ghana, Land Of Rente Cloth And Leaders
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A memorial to human rights
leader W.E.B. DuBois adjoins
his home in Ghana. DuBois,
one of the leading activists
for African and African
American rights in the 20th
century, spent his final years
in Ghana before his death in
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Home
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Castle, a permanent trading
base, was built in 1482 and
served as a slave castle/fort
as human trade became pop
ular. Cape Coast, another
See GHANA On Page 6A
Ancient
Ghana was developed some
where between 332 B,C. and
the birth of Christ, The land
mass of this great civiliza
tion was much more exten
sive than Ghana as we know
it today. It was strategically
located between the salt de
posits of the Sahara and
present day Ghana.
By the 11th century, an
cient Ghana's greatest lead
er, Tenkhamenin, led a
200,000-person army and
Integration Now
Leads To Black
Institutions
Continued From Page lA
They find a certain Identity
here."
That mood is being echoed
across the nation as blacks
choose to live, attend school
and socialize with other
blacks, sometimes even in
separate proms or reunions.
Prince George's County in
.Maryland is among several
flourishing middle-class
black suburbs. Detroit, Chi
cago and Baltimore and oth
er cities have Afro-centric
schools, emphasizing Afri
can themes. And campuses
such as Howard University
in Washington, D.C., attract
black students who have re
jected integrated lifestyles.
For decades, blacks had
their own clubs and fraterni
ties out of necessity. But
what's different now is that
blacks are losing faith
whites will support or accept
them on their own terms,
said Elijah Anderson, a soci
ology professor at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
"It's the acknowledgement
that we live in two separate
societies and that there is
something to be gained by
something being separate,"
Anderson said.
"Some black people are giv
ing up on the American
dream of inclusion and as
similation," he said. "A cen
tral assumption is that ra
cism is a permanent feature
of American society, and one
way to deal wdth it is to avoid
it."
No longer is proximity to
white America the ultimate
measure of success.
"I don't feel I have some
higher calling to force myself
to Integrate myself in a white
middle-class community,"
said Frederick Hutchinson, a
state tax analyst and school
board member In Prince
George's County, one of the
nation's largest suburban
black counties.
Beyond comfort, blacks say
there's another reason to
unite - and that's survival.
One Los Angeles-area group.
Recycling Black Dollars, pro
vides signs to stores to indi
cate they are black-owned. It
also plans to distribute more
than 50,000 free discount
cards to encourage blacks to
patronize black businesses.
"It's not separatism," Mu
hammad Nassardeen, the
group's president, said of his
buy-black plan.
subdued the Muslims from
Morocco and Mauretania.
These ancient peoples were
basically agricultural but
trading was also a vital part
of their economy. Kumbi Sa
leh, the capital of ancient
Ghana, was a major com
mercial center for the latest
developments In science and
culture. This civilization
forged its economy by taxing
gold and salt merchants.
The first European contact
came in 1470 when a party of
Portugese landed along the
Ghanaian coast. Elmina
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