By Stephen Ssenkaaba Ghana has embraced us with open arms. Akwaaba, the Ghanaian Twi language word for welcome is lovely to hear and sometimes say. What a week to get our internships going! Many of us arrived Saturday afternoon, July 02. The excitement as we inspected our rooms and checkedout our third-floor apartment in the Read More …
By: Jake Moore On the way home from my second day of work in Ghana I spent the almost 30 minute car ride speaking with my Bolt driver. For context Bolt is basically Uber. For the first couple minutes the car was quiet and I expected it would be a long and silent ride home Read More …
By: Laura Gattis I’ve tried to start this blog post half a dozen times, but how do you write about a place where everything feels so new? How do you write about a place where some of the starkest examples of poverty, friendship, and community are so deeply intertwined? I’m not sure I can ever Read More …
By: Liz Sgro The first week is over and let me tell you, time is FLYING. Coming into this program as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshman, I was always eager to go to class each week during spring term for our prep class. Yet, to listen, learn, and talk with older and much more experienced Read More …
By: Sam Lorenzo Internships are in full swing here in Ghana and I’m so happy to have been placed at the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR). This summer, I will be spending four weeks devising a communications plan for the company as well as creating digital content to help boost awareness and online engagement Read More …
By: Nate Wilson Over the course of our first couple days in Accra, I was privileged to several enlightening experiences with the rest of the 2022 Media in Ghana cohort, which included lectures from esteemed professors at the University of Ghana (UG), an introduction to Ghana’s native arboreal life at the Abruni Botanical Gardens, a Read More …
By: Khalil Hines This blog post serves as my first blog post for my trip to Ghana, covering the wild and wacky days of June 30th- July 7th. Thursday to Thursday. I’ll just say this, this week started with family drama, and that’s about as far as I will get into it. Thankfully, Friday, July Read More …
By Samantha Lorenzo I’ve always dreamed of visiting Africa. My entire life has been (and continues to be) shaped by the various influences that cross my path, such as music, art, books, and cuisine – many of which stem from a wide array of African cultures. While although I acknowledge the roots from which these Read More …
By: Karl Furlong Attafuah pushes his way into traffic. My apartment’s sleepy side street quickly gives way to the bustle of La Bawaleshi Road, thelocal high street. In no time we are on the highway, heading north. Traffic is light, so the four-mile trip to the offices of the Business and Financial Times will take Read More …
By: Jake Moore JFK is a hectic airport with large crowds, bad smells, frustrated people, and a certain level of chaos that could make even the most confident people anxious. I am currently sitting in JFK waiting for my connecting flight to Accra, halfway through hour two of my eight-hour layover here. Despite the chaos of Read More …
By: Michael Walsh In the first week of this trip, my friends and I have strategically placed ourselves into facets of Ghanaian and African life. In a lot of ways, it feels like a mystery has been revealed to us. A vibrant culture valuing community above all else. We visited the W. E. B. Read More …
By: Melina Mallari Some things that have stuck with me so far: the giant ant hills; the nostalgic smell of a humid, bustling city that resembles where I’m rooted in the Philippines; the liberating feeling of my bare feet dancing on wood and the rhythm of the drums underneath them; and the bonding moments we Read More …
Attafuah pushes his way into traffic. My apartment’s sleepy side street quickly gives way to the bustle of La Bawaleshi Road, the local high street. In no time we are on the highway, heading north. Traffic is light, so the four-mile trip to the offices of the Business and Financial Times will take no more than Read More …
By: Brady Doran I knew I would fall in love with Ghana, but I had never expected it would happen 35,000 feet in the air. An anxious feeling filled my stomach like a balloon as I approached my gate, but Ghana had my heart the moment I boarded flight 156, JFK, to Accra. An aisle Read More …
By: Sam Lorenzo Life has a tendency to become extremely busy and chaotic, taking up so much space that there is no room to acknowledge anything else. The 2021/2022 school year was an eventful whirlwind of madness for me – from moving out of California and into my own place to starting the Communication & Read More …