The Ghana Learn & Serve 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.

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