The “intersession” in Ghana involves lectures from faculty at several Universities-Cape Coast, Kumasi, Legon-- on African oral literatures, dance, film, poetry, and the history of Ghana, especially the impact of the European slave trade on West Africa.  Starting in Accra, students visit the W.E.B. DuBois Center, Nhrumah monument-museum, Artists Alliance, T.V.-Africa; students then go to Kwabeng Village, Eastern Region where they work on building a village library & stocking it, visit the Cocoa Research Institute & learn about that key export before traveling to Kumasi to study the Asante past & gold trade.  The next leg is a stay at UCC campus (see photo) where we also visit slave-trade forts at Cape Coast & Elmina, Fante markets, nearby Kakum Forest, and village schools at Cape Coast. Noted Ghanaian writers & performers lecture at Cape Coast & Accra.

* Cost: $2860 includes: airfare from NYC to Accra, lodging, most meals, transport within Ghana, guest lecturers, writers, performers. Additionally, students pay for visa, shots & tuition= $621 for 3 credits ALS / Hist 219: Africa since 1800 or ALS 251: Pan-Africanism or ALS / Hist 292: City in African History. No additional tuition for 3 s.h. ALS 278: African-Atlantic or ALS 294: Community Development in West Africa or ALS 397: ALS internship during spring term F/T at OSC.

For information, contact: Dr. Kathleen O’Mara, Chair Africana & Latino Studies Dept omarakk@oneonta.edu