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Son of the Global Village

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What Have My Cocoa Beans Got to Do with Canada

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Student blogs

### 2012 Spring courses ### Global Studies (Soci 4320) Bates: http://faithfrombc.wordpress.com Hnatiak: http://brianhnatiak1.wordpress.com Kambere: http://ambitionproject.wordpress.com Owusu: http://worldofowusu.wordpress.com Scott: http://alisescott.wordpress.com Suitner: http://andrewsuitner.wordpress.com Vo: http://pvosoci43102311.wordpress.com Bring: http://navjotbring.wordpress.com SOCI 1125 (LANGLEY) Aqeel Ahmed : http://swagg03.wordpress.com Badgley Ryan Daniel: http://zeempirestrikesback.wordpress.com Bajcetic Ivona : http://23ivona.wordpress.com … Continue reading

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Ghanaian-Canadian Professor and Students Give Rural Students Scholarships, books and computers

Students of Nsaba Diaspora Senior High School near Nsawam in the Eastern Region and 10 of their counterparts from several rural communities in Ghana were beneficiaries of scholarships from students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. … Continue reading

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Personal is Political: the dialectic of personal experience and theory formation

Personal is Political-Keynote speech at First Sociology Conference at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on May 6, 2011 Personal is Political: the dialectic of personal experience and theory formation By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD As a preamble to my speech, I would like … Continue reading

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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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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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