Rochester Faculty Led: Summer in Ghana
Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World explores the sites and figures who contributed to the emancipation of the Black world, understood here as the African continent and peoples of African descent. The choice of Ghana derives from its role in the articulation of the narrative of black emancipation. The city of Accra, with the street names and various parks and monuments, is in itself an embodiment of this struggle.
Course:
Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World
AAS 247 (4 cr.) / AAS 226 (2 cr.)
Instructors:
Cilas Kemedjio and Faculty of the Institute of African Studies, U. of Ghana
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Cilas Kemedjio
Director, the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
cilaskemedjio@rochester.edu
Places to be visited:
Accra: The Dubois Memorial House for Pan African Culture
the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
the Independence Square (formerly Black Square)
Slave Castles (Cape Coast and Elmina)
Kakum National Park
Kumasi: the Kente Village
Cost:
$3,750
