A 'Swarthmore' Grows in Ghana

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

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

Accra, Ghana

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...

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