Local Man Claims To Be Long Lost Relative Of Actor John Amos
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ADENTA, Ghana, Aug. 2007 - 56 year old Adenta resident, Kwasi Gyekye, made some unusual claims this week. He said he has hard evidence proving his kinship to famed American actor, John Amos.
“It’s our noses,” confided Mr. Gyekye. “You can’t dispute Nature. How many other black men have you seen with such a distinctive nose? Other than John, I know of only myself!”
Asked if his uncanny physical resemblance to Mr. Amos has brought him good fortune, he admits that it has caused quite the contrary.
“You know, ever since he starred in Roots in 1977, people have been asking me if I was Kunta, and chasing me for my autograph. When I go for job interviews, they ask me how JJ and Thelma are doing, and if things are ‘dy-no-mite!’ I haven’t been able to get a job since 1988, because here in Accra, they think I am American super star. I am a mountain man from Larteh. How much more local can you get than that?!”
Mr. Gyekye does have a solution and a proposal for Mr. Amos. He would like to invite him to a press conference at Labadi Beach hotel (paid for by Mr. Amos, of course, because he has no income to support such a venture), to show the world the two men side by side. He had this to add:
“John, I am tired of people mistaking me for you. If you are a man come to Ghana. This will prove to the world not only that we are men, but also that we are two different men, separated by time and distance; as a result of the slave trade. I invite you to come to the jungle with your little [cotton] balls, and we shall swab each other’s mouths…for DNA.”
