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What does it mean to be African American?

By Kobina Aidoo

9:14 AM on 07/08/2009

As the first "African American" president prepares to visit Ghana, I'm struck by the irony of his scheduled visit to the Cape Coast Castle. The former slave trading post has the "door of no return" through which many Africans passed on their way to the ships that would bring them...