It's the 1993-94 season and Wake Forest has a promising young freshman named Tim Duncan. Also on that team is a back-up sophomore guard named Stacey Castle. Tim Duncan would go on to college and NBA greatness. While the NBA wasn't in Stacey Castle's future, fatherhood was.
In 2004, Stacey's son Stephon Javonte Castle was born. You know the rest.
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For each of the 31 days I spent in Korlebu several people on my floor alone died because the electric current was low and the oxygen couldn’t be pumped properly for them. This is the country we live in but your headache as a leader is lgbt people
At this point, drinking water companies should be contributing significantly to the cost of cleaning our drains.
Look at the sheer number of plastic bottles in that gutter. It’s an eyesore and a disaster waiting to happen.
Maybe it's time for a citizen-led Ministers of State Awards to give real feedback, not performative praise. Recognition should follow results, not precede them. The optics are so poor, especially when government still has major fires to put out.
no, she wasn't. matilda essi forster beat her to it.
1. matilda was called to the english bar in 1945 and to the gold coast bar in 1947.
2. annie was still a student at LSE and was called to the bar in 1949.
3. what annie jiagge gets credit for is being the first african woman to qualify as an appeal and high court judge in ghana and in the commonwealth.
4. she also did good work in women’s economic empowerment by cofounding the women’s world banking. and a street in the netherlands is named in her honour.
5. but these feats by annie come as no surprise when you find out who her antecedents were.
6. she was born in lomé, togo, as annie ruth baëta, to reverend robert dominngo baëta, who was an icon in the e.p. church.
7. her older brother, rev. prof. christian gonçalves kwami baëta, was ghana's first professor of divinity.
8. he raised the initial capital of ��897,000 from donations by cocoa farmers and presented it to the cocoa marketing board, now the ghana cocoa board, to help establish legon, ghana's first university.
9. but their primary roots, inherited wealth, and privilege came from a portuguese slave trader.
10. as a lasting memory of baëta, the first well in anlo, which he built to quench the thirst of his slaves before their final journey to the ships, still stands in atorkor.
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Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans
Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.
They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.
So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.