Ghana

W.E.B. Du Bois How was your life growing up? My father was a barber. He left my mother and I when I was very young. My mother passed when I was 16 years old in 1884. I worked as a timekeeper in a local mill while still attending school. I ended up being the first African American to graduate from my high school. What schools did you attend? I attended Harvard College, Fisk University, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Harvard University. What were some of your degrees for? I studied Civil…

1962 Man of the Year award from Alpha Sigma Pi and the Edward Miner Gallaudet Award from Gallaudet College Alumni Association in 1975. Foster had two underlying prodigies, Seth Tetteh-Ocloo and Gabriel Adepoju.Both became national deaf leaders in Ghana and Nigeria. Foster died in a plane crash while en route to Kenya in December 1987. The Christian Mission for the Deaf still continues his vision by creating more schools and centers for the deaf people in Africa. Gallaudet University named an…

cities can recent imports from other countries and from other ports in the U.S. They also can export many goods to other countries and other ports in the U.S. Some of the African kingdoms, like Ghana used taxes to gain wealth for the kingdom, likewise, the modern day U.S uses taxes on goods to gain wealth. Ghana in west Africa would tax goods that were traded throughout the kingdom, which brought great wealth to it. In the same way the modern day states in the modern day U.S tax people on…

my academic writings. Again, I will cite all my sources properly with the APA standards and add references to my paper. Though writing an academic paper, citing sources( in APA Standards) is a herculean task for any first year college student. In Ghana there are a lot of unethical behaviours that happens at the universities. I have listed few not limited to my list of unethical academic behaviours in tertiary institutions. • Bribing of lecturers, tutors and…

Conference July 1900 saw the first phase of the Pan-African movement in London. Presided over by Bishop Alexander Walters, thirty-two delegates attended the conference; representatives from the United States, Canada, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Liberia, Ghana, and West Indies were in attendance however it was noted that in general Africa had a poor showing. The key aims of the first conference were: To bring into closer touch with one another the peoples of African descent throughout the…

learning that informs their training and assessment. I decided not to study in Ghana because most of the courses which are taught here are abstract and not industry related. Studying at UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA will offer me the kind of knowledge and skills in need for my career. The knowledge, skills and experience I will obtain from studying in Australia will give me a competitive advantage over my peers in Ghana. It will greatly enhance my career prospects and make me more…

What if the country you lived in was colonized? What does colonialism even mean? It means that other countries are trying to take over your country. In the film hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina didn’t take that so he tried to stop it and he eventually stopped it. Did you know that Paul Rusesabagina risked his life just to save 1,268 people from dying. And its not cool how nearly a million Tutsi died by their heritage by the rivals Hutus. But that’s not the important stuff, the important stuff…

paper also examines the salience of Kwame Nkrumah’s call for the United States of Africa and how this call remains relevant today in the continents search for a place in global interdependence and interconnectedness. Kwame Nkrumah was president of Ghana in 1957 but overthrown by coupe de tat in 1966. His major preoccupation was for Africa to take its own hands (west). To show his commitment to the union government of Africa, he declared on the day of Ghana’s independence, the country’s…

My decision to apply for the NCCC scholarships stems from the perfect platform it provides to pursuing the interest I developed in Nursing whilst in Senior High School. During my Senior High School days in Ghana, my class visited the sick in some hospitals and upon seeing their agony and the way some nurses were maltreating some of the patience, I said to myself, I will become a nurse to offer comfort and care to the sick. I noticed during my interactions with some of the sick especially the…

Mali slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of…