It is raining now, and when I say “rain” I am not joking.  Nothing like this is found in my home in upstate New York.

We drove about an hour and half outside Kumasi today to the rural town of Agogo.

Sankofa-Go Back to Your Roots The trip begins.

Here in Ghana, internet service can work one day but then be washed out by a heavy rain the next.  Also, we often travel to locations that struggle with access to clean running water, so you can imagine that electric lines and internet connections fall a couple notches down on the priority level. I mention…

Introduction to June blog entries… I am traveling in Ghana during this month of June 2011. I join Dr. Susan Bandoni, a group of 13 undergraduate students from the State University of New York at Geneseo and 6 Ghanaian students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (from here on I will use the…