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Kwame
Kwame Through Kwame Nkrumah and the pan-African independence movement, Kwame has become one of the most politically resonant names in West Africa — a name that carries the entire project of African self-determination. Characters named Kwame are often written with an intellectual seriousness about questions of justice and sovereignty, people for whom the political is always also personal.
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