{"id":2530,"date":"2012-10-12T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2018-11-16T22:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T03:45:42","slug":"jessica-berg-blogs-about-her-study-abroad-experience-in-ghana-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/jessica-berg-blogs-about-her-study-abroad-experience-in-ghana-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Berg Blogs About Her Study Abroad Experience in Ghana, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This semester, literature major\u00a0Jessica Berg\u00a0is studying abroad in Ghana. Below, Jessica describes how her perceptions of West Africa changed drastically upon arriving\u00a0in Ghana as well as how her many classes are helping her to develop a better sense of West African literature and culture. Continue reading to see Part One of Jessica&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing\u00a0experience in Ghana and be sure to check back soon for Part Two.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2531\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/jessica-post-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2531\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2531\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/jessica-post-1.jpg\" height=\"408\" width=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/10\/10100157\/jessica-post-1.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/10\/10100157\/jessica-post-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/10\/10100157\/jessica-post-1-768x576.jpg 768w, 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been established by centuries\u2019 worth of incorrect and biased depictions of West Africa, and I could spend as much time picking them apart as I could chatting about my personal experiences.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019m going to try to do both at once.\u00a0 I want my peers to understand the richness of Ghanaian and West African culture on both a personal and academic level, because being here has shown me that West Africa has a lot more to offer than most Americans think.\u00a0 This is especially true for those of us engaged in the literary or creative writing disciplines.\u00a0 Hopefully while I tell you about my experiences studying in Ghana, I can verbalize the imagination and creativity I\u2019ve found here and inspire you to look at this country as a place to find a different outlook on the world, something that\u2019s always useful for a reader or a writer.\u00a0 Ghana deserves it, and so do you.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should start with the University of Ghana, since that\u2019s where I live.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite different from Ball State University both in physical appearance and in organization.\u00a0 Physically, it looks Ghanaian.\u00a0 By that, I mean that most of the buildings are airy, open structures made of concrete, and where there is not scruffy grass there are old trees and red clay.\u00a0 Campus is very large, two kilometers long or longer, and is made up of many different buildings.\u00a0 Each separate department has its own compound, which contains the department\u2019s main office as well as offices for the professors, but classes are generally conducted outside of the departments in a few large lecture halls.<\/p>\n<p>This semester, I am taking six classes: History of the English Language, African Prose, Ghanaian Literature, English Literature from Milton to Blake, Introduction to the Twi Language, and Introduction to African Dance.\u00a0 I do not have class on Wednesdays or Fridays, and I have only one class on Monday.\u00a0 Most international students here have similar schedules, and many of them moan and complain about the amount of free time they have.\u00a0 They\u2019re bored, they say.\u00a0 Classes here are generally light on homework and heavy on examination, so before finals month, most students have little class work outside of class. \u00a0Since many of the international students here are incurable workaholics, they consider the lack of daily work a curse.\u00a0 I, on the other hand, always have reading to do because that\u2019s the nature of literature classes.\u00a0 I revel in my free time because I always have something to read.\u00a0 I love the readings we\u2019re assigned, and my down time allows me to dive deep into my coursework undisturbed.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure many of you reading this blog know how it feels to have three or four novels due to be read in one week and no time at all to read them.\u00a0 Here, that\u2019s not a problem.\u00a0 And since the readings are generally more foreign to me than Western novels are, the extra time really helps me out.<\/p>\n<p>Enrolling in the African Prose and Ghanaian Literature classes here was one of the best decisions I could have made.\u00a0 These two classes combined have taught me more about Ghanaian and West African culture than I ever hoped to learn.\u00a0 Many English students in America read at least one novel about Africa during their college years, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Heart of Darkness<\/span> if not <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Things Fall Apart<\/span>.\u00a0 While those are both excellent novels, they construct a very fragmented picture of Africa.\u00a0 Are you surprised to hear that nothing about my experiences here so far resembles anything that happened in <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Heart of Darkness<\/span>?\u00a0 Even when we plunged into the thick and unruly jungle to brave the canopy walk at Kakum National Park, we failed to penetrate our unconscious minds and fall into barbaric insanity.\u00a0 No, most American students get a very incomplete view of Africa through their literary study in the States.\u00a0 Here, I get a more complete picture, obviously through experience daily life but also through the literature we read and class discussions.\u00a0 Between the African Prose class, in which we discuss novels such as Casey-Hayford\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Ethiopia Unbound<\/span> and V\u00e9ronique Tadjo\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Queen Pokou<\/span>, and the Ghanaian Literature class, which has us reading plays like \u201cThrough a Film Darkly\u201d by J.C. de Graft, novels like <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Fragments<\/span> by Ayi Kwei Armah, and a variety of poetry, I\u2019ve learned so much more than I could have learned in America.\u00a0 African novels offer more than anyone ever told me, so now I\u2019m taking it upon myself to spread the 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