Anani Memorial International School Dancers

I had the pleasure of returning to three schools today, and the students at Anani Memorial International School treated me to an amazing dancing exhibition.  Pictured here is the beginning group--and they had a very hard time holding still and watching once the older dancers took the floor.  The older student's reward for their efforts was a lecture from yours truly on African-American history, which they sat through with good grace and enlivened with some very perceptive questions.  The subject of slavery is, understandably, a sensitive one in modern Ghana, which  has become a successful nation only by overcoming some daunting ethnic, religious, and historical differences.  It was a blessing to be able to speak to such attentive and impressive young students about how people from West Africa were brought to American involuntarily, under the most terrible of circumstances, but succeeded in creating a vibrant and strong society under horrible conditions and went on to gain civil rights for themselves and enrich the larger nation's culture and life beyond measure.