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URBAN GHANA (ALS/HIST 394): Feb 14--25, 2013
2013 Itinerary COMING SOON!!
(click here for 2013 flyer)

Wednesday Jan 4, 2012

  • Depart US
  • Nat’l Arts Museum, Parliament Bldg. Maybe an NGO

Thursday, January 5, 2012        

  • Miklyn Hotel, East Legon
  • Mokola Market

Friday, January 6, 2012

  • Tour of Accra: Nkrumah’s Museum, Fort James Castle, Bukom
  • Urban drop-off at Mokola Market
  • Student interviews at NGOs

Saturday, January 7, 2012

  • Lecture from filmmaker Kwaw Ansah at TV Afrika;  film viewed earlier                       
  • Visit Artists Alliance and National Arts Museum
  • Evening debrief

Sunday - Monday, January 8-9, 2012

  • Quigbey clinic building project, Volta Region.  Stay Akatsi-Hotel Paradise

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

  • Stay Miklyn Hotel, E. Legon

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

  • Leave 8:30 for CRIG in Tafo
  • Visit Kwabeng library and clinic sites; Lunch
  • Early afternoon:  possible reception with Council of Elders in Kwabeng
  •  Go to Kumasi, stay Treasureland Hotel

Thursday, January 12, 2012

  • Morning workshop with Dr. Daniel Amponsah ( Koo Nimo) & his music & dance troupe, Adadam Agofomma
  • Visit Manhyia Palace and Kumasi market
  • Leave for Cape Coast.  Stay Sasakawa Chalets—UCC Campus.  

 Friday, January 13, 2012

  • 9:00 a.m.: visit Cape Coast Castle
  • 11:30 lecture:  Opoku on“West African slavery & slave resistance in Ghana”
  • 2:00 p.m.:  Kakum Forest
  • 5:00 p.m.:  Dr. K.K. Anti:  Traditional religious healing

  Saturday, January 14, 2012

  • 9:00 a.m.: Visit Elmina Castle & environs
  • 11:30 a.m.: Lecture: “Appropriate  technology,” by Prof. Kofi Sam
  • Site visit:  palm nut processing village
  • Student presentations. Shadowing at UCC sites for a few.

Sunday - Monday, January 15-16, 2012

  • Quigbey project. Stay Sat eve at Paradise Hotel
  • Student individual projects
  • Reception with villagers; Return to Miklyn Hotel

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

  • Visit to churches, mosque, Tetteh Quarshie craft market
  • Individual student projects
  • Drum & dance workshop
  • Student presentations

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

  • Individual projects in Accra  
  • Relax 
  • Shop 
  • Leave for Kotoka International Airport

 
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