African American reactions to the restoration of Ghana's ‘slave castles’

Osei-Tutu, Brempong

doi:10.1179/pua.2004.3.4.195

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“…I was exposed to the rich Ghanaian culture and the experience made me feel honored to be part of such a historical occasion. During the course of the trip, we visited with students from the University of Cape Coast and toured Elmina Castleone of the ports for the Atlantic slave trade during the 15 th through the 19 th centuries (Osei-Tutu, 2006). It was at this point where I realized that my perspective around the history of slavery, as an African American, was very one-sided and that I knew very little of other cultures, let alone how that influences and compares to my own culture.…”

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Moving from Competing to Complementary: UnderstandingtheInfluenceofPersonalNarrativeswhen Designing Leadership Studies Curriculum

GuramatunhuCooper¹,

Lyons²

2017

Journal of Leadership Education

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Complex and adaptive challenges threaten human well-being and sustainability. However, our leadership graduates often lack the capacity and or commitment to address these challenges in a meaningful way. This paper details a five-year study exploring the impact of an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on the development of global capacities, complex Adaptive Leadership, Socially Responsible Agency, and systems thinking. The course instructors used innovative and intentionally divergent learning methods to challenge students to serve as stewards of their own knowledge and facilitators of their own learning through the confrontation of authentic and complex challenges. The researchers note transferable qualitative findings that demonstrate the profound impact of the noted leadership learning experience on the development of Socially Responsible Agency, along with Adaptive Leadership capacity and systems thinking.

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Moving from Competing to Complementary: UnderstandingtheInfluenceofPersonalNarrativeswhen Designing Leadership Studies Curriculum

GuramatunhuCooper¹,

Lyons²

2017

Journal of Leadership Education

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“…Ghana has been a subject of a number of African-American 'returnee' studies, but few have analyzed the extent of African-American expatriates' involvement in the tourism industry except those dealing with the interpretation, presentation and conservation of the Cape Cost and Elmina castles (Austin, 2002;Bruner, 1996;Kreamer, 2004;Macgonagle, 2006;Mensah, 2015;Mowatt & Chancellor, 2011;Osei-Tutu, 2004Reed, 2004;Shackley, 2001). Unsurprisingly, these studies show that African-American settlers are opposed to the idea of the forts and castles serving a broader market.…”

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Social distance between local residents and African–American expatriates in the context of Ghana's slavery‐based heritage tourism

Yankholmes

Timothy

2017

Journal of Tourism Research

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This paper explores the social distance between local residents and African–Americans who have settled in Ghana since the 1960s. Data generated from in‐depth interviews suggest the African–American expatriates felt their proximity to collective slave memory or particularly slavery heritage conferred on them certain rights to exclude local residents who are more susceptible to forgetting the past. By appropriating traces of the past, the African–American expatriates provide a range of tourism services, albeit to visitors they believed subscribed to socially constructed meanings elicited at slave sites. The study suggests explicit recognition of African–American expatriates in the levels of contestations that result from slavery‐based heritage tourism.

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The Changing Politics of Slave Heritage in the Western Cape, South Africa

Worden

2009

J. Afr. Hist.

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Changes that have taken place in the ways in which the slave past has been remembered and commemorated in the Western Cape region of South Africa provide insight into the politics of identity in this locality. During most of the twentieth century, public awareness of slave heritage was well buried, but the ending of apartheid provided a new impetus to acknowledge and memorialize the slave past. This engagement in public history has been a vexed process, reflecting contested concepts of knowledge and the use of heritage as both a resource and a weapon in contemporary South African identity struggles.

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African American reactions to the restoration of Ghana's ‘slave castles’

Cited by 12 publications

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Moving from Competing to Complementary: UnderstandingtheInfluenceofPersonalNarrativeswhen Designing Leadership Studies Curriculum

Moving from Competing to Complementary: UnderstandingtheInfluenceofPersonalNarrativeswhen Designing Leadership Studies Curriculum

Social distance between local residents and African–American expatriates in the context of Ghana's slavery‐based heritage tourism

The Changing Politics of Slave Heritage in the Western Cape, South Africa

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