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大象传媒 World Service
Last updated:聽23 october, 2009 - 16:02 GMT

Ghana's Skiing Superstar

West Africa may be famous for its sprinters, but certainly not for skiing - you can't produce skiers if you don't have snow.

But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong wasn't going to let that hold him back.

He first saw real snow just five years ago, and was so inspired he set his heart on becoming a successful skier.

He trained hard in Britain, and now he's heading to the Winter Olympics in Canada next year.

He's even campaigning to have an artificial ski-slope built in Ghana.

Kwame spoke to Outlook's Audrey Brown and explained his unusual sporting passion and why Ghana needs its own ski slope.