Welcome and About
Akwaaba! … means “Welcome!” in Twi, the most widely spoken indigenous language of Ghana, the West African country where I spent the last year as the delighted recipient of a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study abroad. The experience fleshed out my enthusiasm for anthropology, and I have since moved from the Masters of African Studies program at the University of Ghana in Legon to the PhD program in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Quite the climate change, if nothing else!
My name is Andrea. I started this blog to keep in touch with friends and family while in Ghana, and since for all practical purposes Chicago is nearly as far away from California as Ghana is, the blog continues. It aspires to greatness, to including my reflections and insights along the road to becoming an anthropologist as well as snapshots of my quotidian, but as I’m learning, the workload of a grad student may put a damper on that hope!
Interaction is more than welcomed, it’s quite actively desired – please leave comments, notes, questions, critiques, criticisms, hugs, news, and anything else you can dream up.
