Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
AKG controls the heart of one of Ghana's most exciting new gold belts.
I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.
When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.
Would you phone the president of Ghana?
Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.
If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it. (on playing for Ghana)
I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.
My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
