Kojo Amoo-Gottfried
Title: managing director, Cargill Ghana
Age, hometown: 36, Ghana
Education: B.A. Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; MBA, University of Georgia at Athens
PAT PLONSKI
Title: executive director, Books For Africa
Age, hometown: 38, Belle Plaine, Minn.
Education: Ph. D. University of Minnesota (International education); B.A. St. John's University, Minn.
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