Comments on: Dear President Obama… http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/21/dear-president-obama/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: KAPINGU http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/21/dear-president-obama/#comment-564278 KAPINGU Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:21:40 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=7096#comment-564278 That`s a very nice report the Ghananian wrote to the U.S president,I heartily congratulate him for his sympathy over rural people because I too , have such a sorrowful concern over such people who are quite many more here in Tanzania. That`s a very nice report the Ghananian wrote to the U.S president,I heartily congratulate him for his sympathy over rural people because I too , have such a sorrowful concern over such people who are quite many more here in Tanzania.

]]> By: Hippolyt Pul http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/21/dear-president-obama/#comment-564207 Hippolyt Pul Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:03:55 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=7096#comment-564207 I work in the same office with Thomas Awiapo and I had the singular opportunity to meet Mr Obama when he was a Senator (February 2006). I still cherish the picture and the brief conversation I had with him about a possible visit to Ghana. He was planning then to visit Kenya (understandable then). The piece that is missing in Thomas' story is that part of his plight and mine (I also went to school where the CRS lunch was served) is that the slave trade was not in Cape Coast or Accra. It was up country, in the north of Ghana and beyond, where the people were captured and enslaved. That's also the point the Obama's missed when they stayed along the coast instead of traveling up country. It will also be the point that John Davidek and his colleagues will miss when they restrict their visit to Kokrobitey. They will never know the places where the slaves came from nor the scars that that dreadful trade left behind. They will not know that part of Thomas' story (and mine too), whose relatives were captured and stripped of their liberty. Close to Thomas' village was a famous transit slave market; and in my maternal village is a cave where people ran to for cover from the slave traders. Those parts of the story of slavery and of our lives will never be told by the breezes of the sea; but we will continue to live with them for eternity. I work in the same office with Thomas Awiapo and I had the singular opportunity to meet Mr Obama when he was a Senator (February 2006). I still cherish the picture and the brief conversation I had with him about a possible visit to Ghana. He was planning then to visit Kenya (understandable then).

The piece that is missing in Thomas’ story is that part of his plight and mine (I also went to school where the CRS lunch was served) is that the slave trade was not in Cape Coast or Accra. It was up country, in the north of Ghana and beyond, where the people were captured and enslaved. That’s also the point the Obama’s missed when they stayed along the coast instead of traveling up country. It will also be the point that John Davidek and his colleagues will miss when they restrict their visit to Kokrobitey.

They will never know the places where the slaves came from nor the scars that that dreadful trade left behind. They will not know that part of Thomas’ story (and mine too), whose relatives were captured and stripped of their liberty. Close to Thomas’ village was a famous transit slave market; and in my maternal village is a cave where people ran to for cover from the slave traders. Those parts of the story of slavery and of our lives will never be told by the breezes of the sea; but we will continue to live with them for eternity.

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]]> By: John C. Davidek http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/21/dear-president-obama/#comment-564078 John C. Davidek Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=7096#comment-564078 I'm traveling to Ghana, along with nine other American educators, thanks to a grant from The Gilder Lehrman Foundation. We will join up with ten British teachers, along with a like number of Ghanaian educators. The focus of our ten-day study-tour is the transatlantic slave trade. We'll be situated at the Kokrobitey Institute near Accra. The president's recent trip to Ghana highlighted our experience for us, so we are all looking forward to learning much, much more about that area of the world, vis-a-vis the slave trade. All of us very much want to share our intense experience with others...so feel free to contact me and we'll go from there! Thanks... I’m traveling to Ghana, along with nine other American educators, thanks to a grant from The Gilder Lehrman Foundation. We will join up with ten British teachers, along with a like number of Ghanaian educators. The focus of our ten-day study-tour is the transatlantic slave trade. We’ll be situated at the Kokrobitey Institute near Accra. The president’s recent trip to Ghana highlighted our experience for us, so we are all looking forward to learning much, much more about that area of the world, vis-a-vis the slave trade. All of us very much want to share our intense experience with others…so feel free to contact me and we’ll go from there! Thanks…

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