As Yeebo writes, Lincoln University had more African students enrolled in the 1950s than any other college in the United States. He had told his family and his new friends in America that he was pursuing a college degree at Penn, joining the wave of African immigrants seeking higher education in the City of Brotherly Love. The nonfiction narrative chronicles the con artist's lies and daring escapes from justice, and his many misdeeds in Philly before he left the city to escape a warrant for his arrest in 1974.īlay-Miezah's checkered past in Philadelphia began in 1959, shortly after he sailed from the port of Takoradi in Ghana to Brooklyn. The creation of the atomic bomb hinged on a Philly physicistīlay-Miezah's con, which prosecutors would call the "biggest scam in the history of Philadelphia," is detailed in the new book "Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington and Swindled the World" by Yepoka Yeebo.West Philly community archaeology project aims to recover forgotten stories of the Black Bottom.When Sinéad O'Connor refused to have the national anthem played before a concert, a Philly DJ tried to start a feud.They never saw a cent of it again, but Blay-Miezah died a very rich man.
But hundreds of people in this region and all around the world believed him, enough to pour millions of their own money into Blay-Miezah's coffers. Blay-Miezah did not have a secret fund or family connections, and he had never even enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania. But most importantly, that he had sole access to a multi-million, possibly multi-billion, dollar fund created by Nkrumah, and he was willing to cut anyone in for the right price. That he was related to prominent Ghanaians, including Robert Samuel Blay, a justice on the West African nation's supreme court, and Kwame Nkrumah, the country's first president.
That he had traveled from his native Ghana to Philadelphia for an education and he was a proud Penn grad with a medical degree. Over the years, there have been many stories about a man named John Ackah Blay-Miezah.
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