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Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Araba Yacoba Mercer |
 | | Araba was born in Akosombo, Ghana, where her Ghanaian civil engineer father had taken her English mother, Irene, to live. |
 | | Araba started school in Secondi in Ghana, but after her parents' divorce in 1973, her mother and the children - including her older brother and another daughter - moved to London. |
 | | Araba led the way in organising a memorial event for Audre Lorde, on the 10th anniversary last October of her death from breast cancer. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,938177,00.html (680 words) |
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