Ghana
SIS Sojourns to Ghana, West Africa
In addition to conducting oral history interviews with African American Women of Wisdom in the Atlanta area, Spelman Independent Scholars (SIS) enhance their knowledge of the African diaspora through travel. This academic year, from March 4 to March 13, 2005, they traveled to Ghana, West Africa, and were accompanied by SIS Visiting Scholar in Traditional Medicine, Dr. Virginia Davis Floyd, president of PROMETRA US A.
While there, they visited the cities of Accra, Kumasi, and Cape Coast. Among other historic sites, they visited the Kwame Nkrumah Museum, a landmark dedicated to the memory of Kwame Nkrumah; Bonwire, one of the few authentic Kente cloth-making villages in the world; Akrofuom, the home of one of the Young Scholars; and El Mina, a historic slave castle. The Young Scholars also visited the headquarters of PROMETRA Ghana, where they had the opportunity to meet traditional healers and AIDS survivors.
