AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY TO THE YEAR OF GHANA (YoG) AT KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY By Dan Paracka
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Because every country has its own unique confluence of histories and cultures, the Year of Ghana like previous Annual Country Study Programs provides our learning community with an exceptionally rich opportunity to develop a more complex understanding of today’s interconnected world. Intercultural learning is about making the unfamiliar familiar. The study of Ghana is a study of social change and community building as Ghanaian culture continuously re-invents, re-discovers, and renews itself. There is great value in understanding the sociocultural forces of both continuity and innovation in Ghana today. Cultures change not by forgetting the past but by learning from it.
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