2004 Diversity Forum: A Snapshot of Tribal Ghana

     Do you enjoy international travel with an educational focus?  Are you interested in traditional living in an African village and study indigenous tribal issues within a developing country?  Here is your chance to do all of this and more! 

     Dr. Vannetta R. Perry, International Educational Consultant, is offering a two-week experience in Ghana, West Africa emphasizing experiential learning of tribal Ghana. Participants will reside in a rural West African village and take excurions to breathtaking waterfalls, slave trading castles, and a wild game park. We will study tribal Ghana including the governance structure, gender roles, and cultural practices of three major tribes of the country - the Northern Ewe, Asanti, and Dagomba. We will have the opportunity to explore traditional kente cloth weaving, drum making, batik dying, and other indigenous arts and crafts as well as rural subsistence farming and fishing enterprises. We will live with host families in Wusuta, Volta Region, Ghana, and experience traditional West African foods, music, crafts, and livelihood.

The 2004 Diversity Studies: A Snapshot of Tribal Ghana is scheduled for February 23-March 10, 2004. The limited space of 14 participants is rapidly filling. Reserve your spot now! 

The cost is $1500 (includes meals, lodging February 24 - March 9, ground transportation for group travel, traditional African dance and drumming lessons, and entry fee into cultural and natural sites).  Participants are responsible for air fare to Accra, Ghana, international travel insurance, passport and visa, beverages including water (safe bottled water is readily available), passport and visa, inoculations and medications, personal items and gifts. 

Obtaining one university graduate credit-hour through New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, is an available option (additional cost).

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