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To the Super Bowl via Ghana: A Packer Family’s Journey
By KAREN CROUSE
Published: February 4, 2011

New York Times

McKINNEY, Tex. — The mother of Charlie Peprah, the Green Bay strong safety, sat on her couch, VCR remote in hand, and fast-forwarded through the history of her native Ghana until the grainy image of her father, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, filled the screen.

Charlie Peprah is the strong safety for the Green Bay Packers. His grandfather was Ghana’s head of state in the 1970s.


Acheampong was a general who became the Ghanaian head of state in a bloodless coup in 1972. He was overthrown six years later, placed under house arrest, and executed by a firing squad in June 1979.

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  To the Super Bowl via Ghana: A Packer Family’s Journey

NYTimes, Feb 5, Ghanadot - The mother of Charlie Peprah, the Green Bay strong safety, sat on her couch, VCR remote in hand, and fast-forwarded through the history of her native Ghana until the grainy image of her father, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, filled the screen......
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