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Background: Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the constitution in 1981 and a ban on political parties. A new constitution, restoring multiparty politics, was approved in 1992. Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS, head of state since 1981, won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR, who defeated former Vice President Atta MILLS in a free and fair election, succeeded him.

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By Andrew Hewitt
October 10th 2009

A Transformation in the Students at ABSEC Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

10/9/09 How’s it going everybody? I’m doing great incase you were wondering. This past week has been pretty relaxed. As I mentioned last time, I’m teaching the form 1 students again and they aren’t at school yet so I didn’t teach this week. This week we did receive the list of students placed to our school though, so that’s a step in the right direction. They haven’t given a date for the form 1s to report to school yet, but it should be within the next two weeks. In reality, I’ll probably start actually teaching after the midterm brea [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
October 1st 2009

Back in Ghana and the Accra Marathon Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

9/30/09 Hello again everybody. I know it’s been a long time since I last posted anything on the blog, but I’ll fill you in on everything important that has happened. As most of you know, I was able to fly home for Sarah and Anthony’s wedding. Congrats, you two. Welcome to the family Anthony. I hope you know what you got yourself into. It was great to see all my family and friends. Thank you to everyone that made my trip home as enjoyable as it was. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be home for good in about 10 months. [View Full Entry]

By robinray
August 20th 2009

Lake Bosomtwe Africa » Ghana » Ashanti

View of the Ghanaian Countryside

Photos of our trip to the Ashanti region: Kumasi, and Lake Bosomtwe. [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
August 15th 2009

What I've Been Up to Since the End of School Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

8/14/09 Hey everybody. I hope it hasn’t been too long since I wrote last, but there hasn’t really been any breaking news from my end of the world lately. When I wrote last, I was in the middle of marking exams. I am proud to say that I buckled down and got all my exams marked by the end of the term. Unfortunately I wasn’t done with all my school work when I finished actually marking the exams. Then, I had to go through all the exams and add up the scores from each question to get the total score for [View Full Entry]

By robinray
August 1st 2009

Kumasi and bargaining Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Kumasi

We've been traveling to inner Ghana...a city called Kumasi. Let me just say that Kumasi is wayyyyy nicer than Accra, though it is still chaotic and interspersed with nice homes amongst the shanty-towns. W'e're staying in a hostel, called, "Royal Gate Hostel" which brings me to a side-note...almost everyone has a shop here, usually out front of their dwelling...and they are the funniest names I've ever seen! There's the religious names, like "Gate of Heaven Liquors," or "God's Love fast food," or "Lion of Judah internet" and then there's the crazies...like "Passionate Love Drinking Shop [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
July 26th 2009

Shaking Hands with President Obama and End of Term Exams Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

7/25/09 Alright, I know it’s been a long time since I posted on the blog, but I’ve been busy shaking hands with the President so you’ll have to excuse me. I guess I’ll start with my experience with the President since it is definitely the most exciting thing that’s happened to me in the past few weeks, although seeing Harry Potter in a REAL theater was a close second, but I’ll get to that later. As many of you know, President Obama made his first visit to Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa after going to Russia and the G8 summit in Italy. [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
July 6th 2009

End of Midterms and the 4th of July Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

7/6/09 Last week was fairly uneventful for the most part. We were on midterm break until Thursday so the school campus was empty. With no classes it gave me plenty of time to mark my midterm exams. Even though there were only 4 questions on the exam, it still took me hours and hours to do all the marking and record the students’ grades. Technically, the midterm break ended on Tuesday, but Wednesday was July 1, which is Republic Day in Ghana so there was no school. Classes were supposed to start again on Thursday, but as I predicted, that didn’t [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
June 29th 2009

The 2009 Ghana STARS Conference Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

6/29/09 I’d have to say that this was a pretty amazing week. There are two things in particular that made this week so great. The first thing was a successful STARS Conference with minimal problems. The second thing was the outstanding performances of the USA Men’s National team that took them to the final of FIFA’s Confederations Cup. I guess I’ll start with the STARS Conference. After all the preparations it was exciting to actually get the conference underway. There were a total of 60 students that participated in the leadership conference from 30 sc [View Full Entry]

By Andrew Hewitt
June 20th 2009

Girls Soccer, New Trainees Arrive, & Rainy Day Cancellation Africa » Ghana » Ashanti » Akrokerri

6/5/09 It was just another busy week at school. On Tuesday the girls’ soccer team had an inter-school tournament in Obuasi. The day before the competition, the sports master asked me if I was going to go to the games. I told him that I had to teach, but that if class was cancelled so the students could attend, then I would go. Class wasn’t cancelled on Tuesday, but the sports master informed me that he gave my name to the headmaster that I would be going with the team. I wanted to go to the games anyway, and I didn’t [View Full Entry]

By Kirk and Christine
June 12th 2009

Woo Hoo! Africa » Ghana » Ashanti

Woo Hoo! It has been a several months since my last posting. The main reason being, I had no news, nothing to say. As I mentioned before, I’m not teaching this term due to our US trip. Time has basically been spent doing what we could and “waiting”. Everyday ended with the thought, “maybe tomorrow” the exception being Fridays. We have been waiting for Kwabena’s visa situation to sort itself out. Today was the end of the “sorting”. Against all odds Kwabena was granted a visa to travel with us to the US. It has been a very long and grueli [View Full Entry]

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