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 the 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) when 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: $2275 includes: airfare from NYC to Accra, lodging, transport within Ghana, guest lecturers, writers, performers. Students buy own food, visa, shots & tuition= $545 for 3 credits ALS / Hist 219: Africa since 1800 or ALS 251: Pan-Africanism. No additional tuition for 3 s.h. Development Studies in W. Africa spring term F/T ast OSC

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