Ghana Reflections: Travel Scholarship Recipients
I wish to express my gratitude for the opportunity of attending the conference. It has greatly assisted in shaping my perspective further on the issue of slavery.
First, I would like to congratulate the Omohundro Institute, Williamsburg, Virginia, for sponsoring such a highly interesting and intellectually engaging conference on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ghana. I am very glad that you have, by that conference, identified with the African course.
Second, I also express my appreciation for the scholarship opportunity the Institute gave me to be part of the historic academic conference. The conference has broadened my intellectual and philosophical horizon with respect to Slavery and the Slave Trade. It has made me re-appraise my conception of the relations between the self and the other. I say a big “thank you.”
I can’t thank you enough for the scholarship to attend the conference in Ghana. It opened new horizons for me.
I write to thank you and your team, particularly Ted and Kim, for working tirelessly during the Ghana meeting to make it a success.
Personally, I appreciate you deeply for the travel scholarship that enabled me to be part of that Conference. The memories and the lessons learnt will linger for a long time.
You may wish to know that I have already started sharing the lessons.
Thank you and God bless.
I wish to thank you for soliciting funds for the scholarship recipients from different parts of the world and for keeping us in a good mood while in Accra and Elmina in Ghana. There is a lot that we learnt and gathered, and we also made friends.
Kamini Krishna, University of Zambia, would have liked more papers by African scholars, a session devoted entirely to gender, more time for question and answer sessions, and less reading of papers. However, she appreciated the decision of the conference organizers to give nonpresenters a chance to attend and concluded, “On the whole, the conference at Ghana organized by the Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture was indeed historical and memorable. I wish to sincerely thank the agencies for awarding the travel grants to some of us, without which it would not have been possible to attend and contribute to the conference. Last but not least, my hearty congratulations to the organizers of this fruitful conference.”
I want to thank you seriously for the initiative and the generosity that characterized the just-ended Ghana conference. It was rich in contents and superb in organization. I, and I think most of the attendees, benefited tremendously from the rich academic intercourse that the conference afforded. May the good Lord richly bless your endeavours and more power to your elbows.
I wish to thank you warmly and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture for the Travel Scholarship which enabled me to attend the Conference in Ghana. I will remain eternally grateful to your good self, your staff, and your Institute. I made many important contacts and the paper presentations have broadened the horizons of my own research perspectives and methodologies. It is my fervent desire to become a member of your Institute before the end of the year.
Thank you very much. May God continue to bless you and the Omohundro Institute.
I am most grateful to you, the Omohundro Institute, and the American people for the wonderful opportunity I had in attending the successful Ghana conference. It was my first experience. The efforts of pax-Americana have continued to impact positively on the silent and powerless of the world. I am looking forward to exploring the opportunity to have a more mutually beneficial relationship.
I write to really thank you for the opportunity to be part of the Ghana Conference on Slavery—I really gained so much—and for your kind hospitality both at the airport and venues. Thanks and God bless and please keep me informed for any other similar meetings or conferences.
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