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PROFESSOR A. ADU BOAHEN; Historian who shone new light on Africa's past and campaigned for democracy in Ghana.(Features)
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June 5, 2006| Author:
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Byline: Cameron Duodu
A. Adu Boahen, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ghana, Legon, devoted his life to correcting the false impression created by many Western historians of the colonial era that Africa had "no history". Or that, if it had any history, it was full of barbarity and backwardness.
He also taught his fellow Ghanaians by example that it was not enough to know that one's history was full of heroic deeds, but that people must let their knowledge of their glorious past spur them on to accomplish great deeds in their own lives. He bestrode ...
