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Sep 23, 2003

"If there is anything you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." --Goethe

Sewing an African Ivy League

Two decades after Patrick Awuah sought help tapping into the standard American dream, he is going home to Ghana to pursue one of his own making: Awuah, who studied engineering at Swarthmore College and made a small fortune at Microsoft, is building a university — one that he hopes becomes the seed for an African Ivy League.