I am currently at Ashesi University college. It is pretty warm and sunny today which is nice since the last couple of days has been pretty cloudy and rainy. Tuesday night was really rainy. There was alot of thunder and lighting during the night. The Lighting was so crazy that it lit up the sky.
This last weekend we went to the Nkruma museum. It was really cool! He was the first president of Ghana. This museum was really neat to see because they have preserved things like his desk from the presidential office as well as a large collection of photos from hist time in office. There are also beautiful statues of Nkruma their as well which were really cool.
We also visited the W.E.B. Dubois center which was so exciting to see. Dubois was a Pan-Africanist from the United States who later moved to Ghana to finish his work in race issues and history. His home in Accra, Ghana is now a museum and a place for African Americans to come back to Africa. There is also a really neat library there with a lot of African and race history book there. These next couple of weeks I hope to go back and do some research while I am in Ghana.
We also went to a place in Accra, Ghana were they make coffins. In Ghana many people in the Ewe and Akan ethnic groups make coffins for those who are deceased shaped as objects. Some people may have coffins made shaped as crabs, fish, beer cans, planes and cars to resemble something that they want to bring with them in the afterlife. A women who wanted to travel before death may have a coffin made for her in the shape of a plane or a fishermen might have a coffin shaped as fish as well.
This weekend we will be going to an orphanage to help clean and to talk to the kids there. We will be helping them create a recycling program.
March 6th in Ghana is Independence day which will be really exciting. There is a large parade where children from local schools practice and create their own unique march for Independence day. A lot of people in Ghana also go to the beach on Independence day.
I am also planning a couple trips for the next couple of weeks/month I am going to go to Mole National Park in the Northern Region of Ghana which is 12 hours away from Accra. I also am hoping to go to the Eastern region during Spring break to go para gliding.
Nkruma statue
Dubois Center
Coffins shaped as soda bottle, Star Beer and a Camera there is also a robot in Back
Fish Coffin and Eagle coffin to the left side
Nkruma Museum , Burial site inside
Elmina Slave Castle This is the inside of the Castle the building in the Middle is the Church in the compound
Cape Coast fishing boats
Cape Coast fishing community
Elmina lookout on to Cape Coast Area
Lizards that I see all around Ghana they scare me!
Me petting a crocodile
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