Monthly Archives: May 2011

Ghanaian and Canadian Students Study in Classroom without Walls

Ghanaian and Canadian students learn from Classroom Without Walls Special Surrey – The popular Ghanaian greeting “Akwaaba (Welcome) to the Global Classroom” welcomed Kwantlen Polytechnic University students in Surrey, British Columbia when they signed into Dr. Charles Quist-Adade’s Sociology of … Continue reading

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Project: Coca-cola project

Project title The Kwantlen Students’ Solar Lanterns Project (KSSLP): Lighting Up the Path to Brighter Education in Rural Ghana Project Description The Kwantlen Students’ Solar Lanterns Project (KSSLP) is a student-ledinitiative to create, assembly, and supply affordable, environmentally-friendly and sustainablesolar-powered portable … Continue reading

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What is ‘race’ and what is ‘racism’?

What is ‘race’ and what is ‘racism’? By Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D. New African December 2005     Dr Charles Quist-Adade sheds light on the destructive power of race and racism and contends that the twin notions, while illogical and irrational, … Continue reading

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Kwame Nkrumah, the Big Six, and the fight for Ghana’s independence

Kwame Nkrumah, the Big Six, and the fight for Ghana’s independence By Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D. Journal of Pan African Studies August 2007     Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary has come at the confluence of several monumental events, including the 200th … Continue reading

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Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana and Africa’s global destiny

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana and Africa’s global destiny By Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D. Journal of Pan African Studies August 2007     Almost a century ago, in the small village of Nkroful in the Western region of Ghana, a child was born. … Continue reading

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Ghanaian-Canadian Professors Support Schools, Libraries and Hospital in Ghana

Ghanaian-Canadian Professors Support Schools, Libraries and Hospital in Ghana By Karilysa Michaels, Surrey, BC, Canada July 18, 2008    They are compatriots and colleagues united by a mission of compassion and a desire to give back to their land of … Continue reading

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Thank you Bush for Giving Us Obama!

Thank you Bush for Giving Us Obama! By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD     The best thing to have happened to Africans in this century is George Bush. Bush’s disastrous domestic and foreign policies made it possible for the first African … Continue reading

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How I teach the Sociological Imagination and Globalization

How I teach the Sociological Imagination and Globalization By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD, Kwantlen Polytechnic University     How I teach the Sociological Imagination and Globalization Charles Quist-Adade, PhD, Kwantlen Polytechnic University Authors’ Contact Information Charles Quist-Adade, PhD, Kwantlen Polytechnic University … Continue reading

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