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Yo Ghana! President's Book on American Views of Africa Just Published by Zed

7/29/2017

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Zed Books of the UK has just published a book by Yo Ghana! President and co-founder, David Peterson del Mar: African, American: From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father, Africa in the U.S. Imagination. The book is dedicated to the late Brando Akoto, one of our organization's visionaries.

Leslie James, a historian at Queen Mary, University of London, remarks that the book: "Demonstrates how Americans projected their own gender, class, and racial psychoses into their experiences and renderings of the African continent. Peterson del Mar seeks a critical approach not to what Africa is, but to how Americans have perceived it. With this comprehensive source, we might begin to understand the difference."

Kathryn Mathers, a cultural anthropologist at Duke University, states: "Through a comprehensive yet sensitive analytical reading of fiction, autobiography, and film, Peterson del Mar shows just how much Africa has and continues to shape what it means to be American."

Contact us (
yoghana.org@gmail.com) if you are interested in purchasing a copy for $20.00, and the profit will be donated to Yo Ghana!

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Conference High Points

7/19/2017

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One of the best parts of our Second Annual Yo Ghana! conference was that students paired up with new friends from different parts of the country and then interviewed each other about their lives, like Emmanualla, a ten-year old from the slum of Nima and Salma, from Tamale in Northern Ghana. We'll be publishing a booklet of those interviews in Ghana. It was so cool to see them getting excited about being knowledge creators.

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2nd Annual Yo Ghana! Conference 2017!

7/8/2017

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Our Ghana conference has finally arrived here in the year of 2017!  Here are some awesome things that have been going on!

June 30th:  "Karen [pictured above] had a busy Thursday between teaching a Spanish lesson at St. Paul and scrimmaging with the Winneba Soccer Club."

July 1st:  "What a great day at our Annual Conference! Teachers explored and discussed innovation teaching methods, students worked on learning and writing each others' stories, and much more!"

July 1st:  "About a dozen of our students with guidance from two teachers put together a wonderful short play on a classroom lesson in less than 24 hours that they performed for us!  The level of creativity is amazing!"

July 2nd:  "More workshops on innovative teaching today for the teachers and maths, poetry, and oral history for the students. And lots of awards and hugs and love. We are excited for next year already!"  

July 5th:  "
Karen and I [David del Mar] got to do an oral-history workshop today for about 100 students at Dahin-Sheli, teaming up with Mr. Nantoma and Madam Hani. Then it was off to ECG to present exercise books to our letter writers.  Great fun, and the dedication of Ghana teachers is inspiring!"

July 6th:  "
Thursday we had a wonderful time visiting and dancing with the staff at Kamina Barracks.Mr. Nantogma again hosted us at Savelegu Senior High School, and his wife provided a delicious lunch. Then Karen taught some U.S. dance at ECG."

July 7th:  "Friday we returned to Dahin-Sheli School as a dozen students presented what they had learned from elders about how they, the elders, had learned traditions and the challenges in the modern day to passing them down. Well done! We hope they will pursue the oral histories much further in the coming school year."

​Onwards to more fun!!  (Seems like that fun is resonating based on the photo below!)



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WestLinnTidings Article on Yo Ghana! Volunteer!

7/8/2017

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One of our amazing volunteers, Sarah Florig, had an article done on her in the WestLinnTidings paper outlet!  This article concerns her journey to Ghana and her goal of improving cultural awareness all over our globe (especially Ghana!).  Thank you Sarah for your amazing and tireless work!!  See the link to the article below:

http://pamplinmedia.com/wlt/95-news/363184-242809-in-yo-ghana-program-wl-resident-finds-something-to-call-her-own
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