The International Relations Department of the African University College of Communications (AUCC) has invited students and lecturers participating in the “Semester at Sea” programme to Ghana on their 100th voyage on 22nd September 2009.

As part of activities to welcome the group to the Discovery House Campus of AUCC, all the guests were initially given a bottle of water in line with the Ghanaian tradition of serving water to guests to welcome them.  This was followed by a cultural display by dancers from the “Dza Nyumo” cultural troupe who treated the guests to several traditional Ghanaian dance steps. A luncheon was also organized for them after which the Vice-President of AUCC, Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku gave them an overview of Ghanaian culture by presenting a lecture on the topic, Introduction to Ghanaian Culture.

Master Peter Morris of University of Florida who was one of the visiting students, summed up the success of their brief visit to Ghana by saying that Ghanaians were some of the friendliest people he had met.

The group have since left Ghana for South Africa, Mauritania and India and will return to the U.S.  on 14th December 2009.