My GEM journey
My GEM journey
I worked with the Ghana Commission for UNESCO a few summers ago. Prior to this experience, I had taken several classes on colonialism across different continents. In class, I learned about how systems and structures were intentionally created to keep formerly colonized people marginalized and to lay the groundwork for metacolonialism, which is simply a …
I took a Psychology class called Intergroup Peace and Conflict, where we looked at different ideas of peace and the psychological strategies people use to promote peace within and between groups. A big part of the class was questioning what we actually mean when we say a society is “peaceful,” especially when deeper issues like …
I went on a class trip to Kenya with my Global Engagement in Practice class in March. This trip gave me the opportunity to buttress my theoretical knowledge with practical experience, especially in global engagement. I found myself reflecting at length on intercultural theorists we had engaged with in Introduction to Global Engagement, as well …
For my Global Engagement in Practice class, we each had the opportunity to pursue an individual project while in Kenya. My project focused on how Kenya’s education system confronts its colonial past, whether it creates space and fosters discussion of decolonial efforts, and how people’s concepts of cultural identity have been reconstructed since Kenya gained …
In my Global Engagement Senior Capstone class, we were tasked with submitting a meaningful photo from our global engagement journey so far, along with a description. Following this, the class was presented with each person’s image without a description and asked to reflect on what they thought it might mean in the absence of context. …
The Only Difference is Time(Ama Tuffour, 08/1/24, Cape Coast Castle) The Cape Coast Castle was built by the Swedes as a trading post in the 1650s. It was later transformed into a slave fort in 1644 by the British. Following Ghana’s independence in 1957, the Cape Coast Castle now serves as a museum to commemorate …
