Sir ALEC: Well, the problem was that this family originally from Ghana--they were UK citizens--the youngest boy in the family went back to Ghana and then returned after a while to the UK on a passport that had been tampered with.

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Born to a prominent family in eastern Ghana - his father, Edward Akufo-Addo, was a chief justice and later president of Ghana.

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But he chose to remain near his home in Potomac, Maryland, where he and his family have lived since immigrating from Ghana in 1997.

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Not long after her return to Ghana, she opened her first beauty clinic with financial support from her family.

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Mr Mahama hails from the Gonja ethnic group in northern Ghana, where he was born in 1958 to a well-off family.

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