Monthly Archives: October 2014
Success Story from Ghana: Patrick Awuah, Founder of Ashesi University
UPDATED January 5, 2016. I was first ‘introduced’ to Mr. Awuah through a snapshot of his life presented in William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden (2007), a book my students read in their first semester of a multi-year academic service learning program called Periclean Scholars, for which I serve as the faculty adviser. The brief […]
Success Stories from Africa
Welcome to African Development Successes I started this blog because I was tired of all of the negative mass media coverage of the continent. I wanted to share with others that there are many excellent African leaders engaged in development efforts in their home countries and beyond. This site shares uplifting stories about the positive […]
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