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Ghana Study Abroad: Local and Global Connections

Ghana Study Abroad: Local and Global Connections. Summer, 2011. ETHN 390 / INTS 490 / COMM 390 3 credits June 21- July 7, 2011 . Ms. Patricia Foster Director, Women’s Center UW-Platteville. Prof. Fay Akindes Director, Center for Ethnic Studies Associate Prof, Communication.

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Ghana Study Abroad: Local and Global Connections

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  1. Ghana Study Abroad:Local and Global Connections Summer, 2011

  2. ETHN 390 / INTS 490 / COMM 390 • 3 credits • June 21- July 7, 2011

  3. Ms. Patricia FosterDirector, Women’s CenterUW-Platteville

  4. Prof. Fay AkindesDirector, Center for Ethnic StudiesAssociate Prof, Communication

  5. *Tuesday, June 21 • O’Hare Chicago • Heathrow, London • Accra, Ghana Thursday, July 7 -2011 Accra, Ghana Heathrow, London O’Hare, Chicago * Flights TBA

  6. ACCRA, GHANA • Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park • W.E.B. DuBois Center • University of Ghana – Legon

  7. Lodging in Accra:Coconut Grove Regency Hotel

  8. Kumasi – Ashanti Capital • Ashanti Kingdom • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology • Kumasi Marketplace • Ashanti village

  9. Lodging in KumasiKwame Nkrumah University – Engineering Guest House

  10. Cape Coast / Elmira • Historic Slave Forts and Dungeons • “Global Mamas” – women’s co-op • One Africa – SeestahImahkus

  11. Slave Dungeons

  12. Gate of No Return • Cape Coast, Ghana

  13. Elmina Castle • Slave Dungeon

  14. Lodging in Cape Coast:One Africa

  15. Why Ghana? • Historical, cultural, political ties to U.S. • Ancestral home of many descendents of African slaves • First Sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European colonizer in 1957

  16. Kwame Nkrumah • “Ghana will not be completely free until the whole of Africa is free.”

  17. Ghana: Symbol of Liberation for all Blacks in Africa and the Diaspora • Symbol of freedom for South Africans fighting apartheid • Symbol of hope for African Americans fighting racism in the U.S. • Symbol of possibilities for Africans throughout the continent and the African diaspora

  18. GHANA Today • First African country to welcome Africans home with the “Right to Abode” legislation • First African country visited by President Obama • First Sub-Saharan African country to qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals in 2010

  19. GHANA Local Ties: • First cocoa-bean growing country to process its own single-country chocolates – OMANHENE, based in Milwaukee, WI • Business ties with S.C. Johnson, Racine, WI

  20. Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor. -- Ghana proverb

  21. Adinkra symbols

  22. Kente Cloth

  23. Beads

  24. Food!Fried fish & rice

  25. Beans & plantain

  26. Groundnut soup & fufu

  27. Fish soup and kenkey

  28. Fried fish and kenkey

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