X-Perience Ghana

Program Overview

Learn, X-Perience and Discover Ghana

10-Day Travelling and Learning 'X-periencing Ghana'

Program 1 involves three different sections offering participants a holistic, comprehensive, and broader insight into Ghana and how Ghanaians live in Ghana.

1

Education

Ghana — The Past, the Present and the Future

This section highlights important aspects of Ghana's History, Geography, Education Systems and Economy, and includes visits to a range of establishments.

History of Ghana

Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Kwame Nkrumah to Makola Market — 1961
Colonial Era
Colonial Era

Queen Elizabeth II's famous dance with President Kwame Nkrumah at the farewell Ball, November 1961.

Transatlantic Slave Trade
Transatlantic Slave Trade

Visit the historic slave castles and dungeons along the Cape Coast — powerful reminders of a painful history.

Ghana's Big Six
Ghana's Big Six

The founding fathers of Ghana's independence — learn about the leaders who shaped the nation.

Our Geography

Our Landforms
Our Landforms
Our Habitation
Our Habitation
Our Vegetation
Our Vegetation

Educational Systems

Rural Community Basic Schools
Rural Community Basic Schools
Teaching & Learning Sessions
Teaching & Learning Sessions
Senior High Schools
Senior High Schools
University of Choice
University of Choice
2

Culture

The Ghana Vibration

Specially designed to enable participants to learn about and to experience how Ghanaians live. It involves cultural practices and traditions, values, belief systems, and customs.

Traditional Ghanaian Festival
Traditional Ghanaian Festival
Traditional Warrior Dance (Asafo)
Traditional Warrior Dance (Asafo)
Football — Our Passion
Football — Our Passion
Orange Friday — Biggest Street Carnival in West Africa
Orange Friday — Biggest Street Carnival in West Africa
3

Skills Training

Learn it Yourself — L.I.Y

Offers participants the opportunity to learn first-hand some practical skills of doing things the Ghanaian way — traditional drumming and dancing, basket weaving, batik and tye-and-dye making, high-life dancing, and Ghanaian indoor and outdoor games.

Learn Batik Making
Learn Batik Making
Learn Bead Making
Learn Bead Making
Local Games — Draughts
Local Games — Draughts
Traditional Ghanaian Dance
Traditional Ghanaian Dance

Recent Trips

Village on Stilts

Nzulezu

Village on Stilts

Kwame Nkrumah's Hometown

Nkroful

Kwame Nkrumah's Hometown

Cape Coast Castle

Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle

Adventure on the Canopy Walkway

Kakum

Adventure on the Canopy Walkway