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Ghana
Sunday, July 09, 2006
LEAVING GHANA - June 27
Leaving Ghana was almost as much of an adventure as getting there - starting with driving to the airport during Ghana’s last World Cup game
BOTANICAL GARDENS, TROPICAL FOREST and SLAVE CASTLE - June 24-25
The weekend offered our only opportunity for excursions while in Ghana—had we known that Thorvald wouldn’t be in England this summer, we might have stayed on a bit, but a week made us pretty glad to escape the humidity, so perhaps it was all for the best. In this episode, we travel to see a colonial era Botanical Garden, and then to take a “canopy walk” and tour a slave castle….a part of the world’s history that casts no one in a particularly good light. Below is one of the cannon with which they defended themselves….mostlyagainst other Europeans wanting to take over the “business”.....
LECTURES IN GHANA - June 22-23
Thursday and Friday I talked to the group and took comments and questions. We got to do some sightseeing on Sabbath and Sunday, but that will be in the next post.
GETTING TO GHANA - June 19-20
This summer I got invited to do some lectures for the SDA GC Education Department at a conference in Accra, Ghana. A group of about 20 profs from Africa, Asia and the U.S. were working on papers around the subject of the integration of faith and science in religious universities. I gave three talks (even used PowerPoint to illustrate them) on the subject from my discipline. When we finished at Valley View University, Ghana, we returned to England, and have been spending about three weeks in Anglia and the SE, driving a rental car and staying mainly in Youth Hostels. I’ll post what I’ve been calling my “trip logs” here, including photographs as I have the chance.
Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela