November 5, 2004

A 'Swarthmore' Grows in Ghana

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

Unexpected wealth led an American-educated businessman to start a small private college

In 1985 Patrick Gyimah Awuah left Ghana to study engineering and economics on a scholarship to Swarthmore College. Within 12 years he had become one of many "Microsoft millionaires," ordinary employees who found themselves reaping unexpected gains on the stocks they bought when they joined the company.

Mr. Awuah, who felt tremendously grateful for the education he had received at Swarthmore,

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