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Ghana in The News: New King of Otuam Is American — And a Woman?

by Jeremy Cohen | Nov 11, 2010 | Blog | 1 comment

For all the obvious and predictable talk about gender inequality — have you heard how they treat women in the developing world? — to me, today’s NPR story about Peggielene Bartels, the Ghanaian-American woman anointed king of her home village (first reported in...

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