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European Coaches Leading Africa To Victory--Or Defeat?

Amanda Ellis Region: Ghana

      After leading quite an impressive winning streak for Ghana, Black Stars Coach Claude Le Roy finally admitted defeat. Losing to Cameroon 1-2 in their final match, and falling to third pla... more

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Kyerematen to Stand Firm on Resignation

Amanda Ellis Region: Ghana

     In a recent statement issued from the office of Mr. John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, also known as “Alan Cash,” the now-former presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) explain... more

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Tags: Ghana
 

The Race for Ghana: Nigerian Banks Get Ambitious

Amanda Ellis Region: Ghana

    Driving down Oxford Street in Osu, there are many aesthetically pleasing sights to see. There are a number of restaurants, bars and other places of leisure. There are also numerous signs and ad... more

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Fall

Amanda Ellis Region: Ghana

Fall is my favorite--I like to think it's a time for new beginnings.  Public school years start, universities open, and colder, crisper air replaces the stagnant, moist collections that have been dangling all around ... more

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Michael

Amanda Ellis Region: Ghana

Michael, never Mikey. So we were in the middle of the mosh pit.  And I had that incredible feeling you only get in those sweaty, messy pools of people.  It felt so exciting, to have hands on my shoulders attache... more

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They either get it, or they don't

Amanda Ellis Region: New York

Words are so meaningless, so far off of pivotal that it scares me. But then, sometimes just one solitary word makes all the difference to someone who’s willing, conscientiously or not, to listen and process it.&... more

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Swallowing Goldfish

Amanda Ellis Region: New York

            Unlike her friends from back home, and even her friends at college, with boyfriends they’d left behind, she knows in the back of her head, when she l... more

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Tags: Ali , Boy , Time
 

Watching Watching Watching

Amanda Ellis Region: New York

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Tags: Things , Back , Knows
 

So I Don't Know That Much...

Amanda Ellis Region: New York

I'd like to be able to say, officially, that the abundance and compilation of experiences and different moments and feelings that I've had thus far in my life have all, in their own way, meant something to me, taught me so... more

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Tags: Time , First , Something
 

Fortune Cookies, and the Like

Amanda Ellis Region: New York

Except she wasn't like That at all.  She just wasn't. She was so many things other than That, so many other things that she knew, she knew knew knew, if other people knew they would think about her, and things, ... more

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Tags: Things , People , Sometimes , Knew

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Name: Amanda Ellis
Member Since: April 2007
Location: NY
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# of Articles: 13
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I'd classify myself as a student, city skuttler, and freelance thinker. I studied journalism and politics in Ghana for a semester last year, as well as taught 7th grade English at a local Ghanaian jr. high school. Am now currently a teacher's assistant to a k-1 elementary class, working on my double major of journalism and political science at NYU.
Interests: wandering around the city, going out with friends, dancing, singing, writing, reading the NYTimes and other books, music music music, coffee, tea, West Africa, traveling, other cultures, people.


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