Destination: Ghana
"If an award were given for the country with the friendliest people in West Africa, Ghana would be a strong contender."
- Lonely PlanetLearning
Ghana is a country rich in culture and history and GLA students will learn first hand these elements that make Ghana a hidden treasure.
- Meet leaders at the grassroots and national level who are creating social change in Ghana
- Dance to the rhythms of West African percussion.
- Start speaking some basic phrases in the local tribal languages
- Revisit history at the slave forts along the Cape Coast
- Learn about the tribal system of traditional chiefs that runs in parallel to the freely elected governmental body
- Create arts and crafts during a workshop and also meeting local artisans that weave traditional kente cloth.
