King Peggy
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton’s story about how an American woman came to reign a Ghanaian village aired on NPR’s Morning Edition today:
It was two years ago, at 4 a.m. at her apartment in Maryland, that Peggielene Bartels got the news from West Africa. A relative called from Ghana to say that her uncle, the king of the fishing village of Otuam, had died.
The news didn’t end there. She was also informed that she had been anointed his successor: King Peggy.
Listen to the story here.
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