1993_10 The Daily Collegian October 1993

              Monday, Oct 25,1993
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News—3
E
ad student crowned
king of African town
CPS—When the militia stir- "AH the people were shouting. I
rounded Emory University gradu- was paraded through town and con-
ate student Anthony Ephirim- fined for a week. It's a very demo
Donkor's home in Ghana and cratic process because the candi-
"seized" him, he knew he could no date is presented to the towns-
longer run from his destiny: to be.
crowned a king.
Following hundreds of years of
tradition, Dohkor, 37, was carried
throughout the town on the shoul¬
ders ofthe sol¬
diers        and
placed in con-
fineme.nl
where he spent
week per-
people, and they can say yes or
'no,'" Donkor said. \
Donkor has spent the past 11
years studying in tbe United States,
when his grandfather, who was
"I had to come here to rediscover my
tradition. One is not conscious of
Bluefield State College in West
Virginia and the University ofTen -
nessee at Chattanooga. He then at¬
tended the Candler School of The¬
ology in Atlanta, where he earned a
master's degree of divinity.
Donkor said it was at Candler
that he began to reclaim his culture.
'1 see my being here in the U.S.
as preparation for becoming king.
I've been away
     since     1982,"
Donkor said.'It's
scary, I don't
know how I'll be
able to meet the
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forming .the one's culture until one steps out of it.  obligations.''
"I had to come
here to rediscover
I had never been judged on my color,
I had to find out: Who am I2£>
—Anthony Ephirim Donkor
necessary ritu¬
als to become
king.
His home¬
town rejoiced.
They had not
had a ruler in   —
11 years, and had watched Donkor,
the grandson of their beloved king,
elude being "seized" by attending
school in the United States.
Donkor, who is studying Afri¬
can religion and human develop-'
ment in Emory's Graduate Insti¬
tute of Liberal Studies in Atlanta,
and who is an ordained Methodist
minister, knew thaf as a member of
a royal family, the possibility that
he would be "seized" followed him
each time he visited his hometown.
king of the town for 42 years, died,
Donkor came to the United States
to attend school.       . ..
"I ran away from the obliga-.
tiori,'' said the pastorof tbe Suwanee
Parish United Methodist Church in
Georgia and the father of three small
children. "But I wasn't ready to be
king."
Donkor came to, the United
States in 1982 at the invitation ofa
United Methodist missionary he
met in Liberia. He attended
my tradition. One
is not conscious
of one's culture
until one steps out
^^~^^~ of it. I had never
been judged on my color. I had to
find out: Who anil?"
Donkor, who will take the royal
name Nana Obrafo Owam X, said
that his experience as a Methodist
minister is not unlike the royal du¬
ties awaiting him when he takes the
throne in December.
"They are both sacred offices,"
he observed. "They involve lead-
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