Africa
Culture Kit
Ghana #2
Africa, Ghana
This kit was created by a UNC Navigator student whose parents are from Ghana! It has traditional clothing items, instruments, jewelry, food and drink packages, currency, and a small flag. It also cont…
Culture Kit
Kenya (African Studies Center)
Africa, Kenya
This Kit belongs to the UNC African Studies Center. It will be mailed to you by Stacey Sewell, sewall@email.unc.edu. She will be your point of contact for this kit. The Kenya Culture Kit was designed…
Culture Kit
Kenya #3 (Carolina Navigators)
Africa, Kenya
Check out our newest Kenya kit today! Featuring the traditional clothing and instruments of Kenya, the Kenya #3 kit offers many informational items, such books, music, and games. Other items include h…
Culture Kit
Kenya #2 (Carolina Navigators)
Africa, Kenya
This kit includes many clothing items and accessories such as beaded sandals, a soccer jersey, leso cloth, skirts, beaded Masai necklace, beaded bracelet, a pink purse, a placemat purse, bone bracelet…
Culture Kit
Kenya Learning Box (Elementary or Middle School Book Set & Resources from the African Studies Center)
Africa, Kenya
This Learning Box (book set & resources) belongs to the UNC African Studies Center. It will be mailed to you by Stacey Sewell, sewall@email.unc.edu. She will be your point of contact for this box….
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A Vantage Point can go a Long Way
Africa
Is the image above one of an older lady, or of a younger woman? It all depends on the vantage point… The article Africa is not a country describes how many students view Africa presently. The arti…
Culture Kit
Mali Timbuktu Learning Box (Book Set & Resources) African Studies Center
Africa, Mali
This Learning Box (book set and resources) belongs to the UNC African Studies Center. It will be mailed to you by Stacey Sewell, sewall@email.unc.edu. She will be your point of contact for this box. T…
Culture Kit
Burkina Faso
Africa, Burkina Faso
This kit has clothing items and accessories such as a traditional fulani hat, pagne (fabric), and leather wallet. It also contains an informational book about Burkina Faso, photos of daily life, a mus…
Culture Kit
Daily Life in Dakar (Senegal) (African Studies Center)
Africa, Daily
This Kit belongs to the UNC African Studies Center. It will be mailed to you by Stacey Sewell, sewall@email.unc.edu. She will be your point of contact for this kit. The Senegal Culture Kit, also known…
Culture Kit
Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
This kit includes many items from daily life, such as plastic basin for washing clothes, a plastic Jerry can, a mosquito net, and a Congolese newspaper. It also includes a boy’s school uniform, cloth…
Culture Kit
Egypt Learning Box (Book Set & Resources from the African Studies Center)
Africa, Egypt
This Learning Box (book set and resources) belongs to the UNC African Studies Center. It will be mailed to you by Stacey Sewell, sewall@email.unc.edu. She will be your point of contact for this box. T…
Culture Kit
Ethiopia
Africa, Ethiopia
This kit features several cooking items, including a traditional coffee pot, a coffee top and bottom, a clay bowl called a taba, a spoon used by the Gurage ethnic group, a woven plate, and berbere sea…
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Dissecting our Little Perspective of a Big Place
Africa, Rwanda
If you were to ask me what I thought about Africa when I was in elementary school, I might have told you all about my favorite animals in the zoo. “In Africa,” I would probably say, “you see lots of g…
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All in this Together
Africa, Uganda
“Traditionally, the African familial system is based off family and tribal connections. The kinship system is set up in a way in which everyone helps each other, no matter if they are members of the e…
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Death to the Personal Bubble…
Africa, Uganda
While abroad in the African country of Uganda, there were many things that were culturally shocking for me. It was my first time in a different county and to be in a continent very different from Nort…
Article
Overcoming the Single Story
Africa
The single story is one that give its audience only one picture of a place or an idea. It fails to show diversity and it overshadows the numerous other stories that should be told about a place. As I…
Article
Shocking Directness
Africa, Ghana
Two years ago, I studied abroad in Ghana. I absolutely loved my experience though I felt that, at times, my values conflicted with the values of society or at least of Ghanaian individuals. Often, thi…
Article
KULI!!!! KULI!!! (Eat!!!! Eat!!!)
Africa, Morocco
When I was in Morocco, we were given a mini Moroccan Culture 101 session on the first day of our arrival at the Medina. We were told the basic dos and donts and as a woman, this was greatly needed….
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Living in the Mountains and Overseas
Africa, Asia, Cambodia, Europe, Global, Spain, Uganda
My name is Chelsea Phipps and I’m from the mountains of North Carolina, from a little town called Sylva. I’m majoring in Global Studies and Political Science and am hoping to work in international dev…
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Ghana- Culture and Corruption
Africa
Hi! My name is Brendan Yorke and I study Psychology and Intercultural Communication at UNC. With each presentation, I hope that students discover how they can engage with other cultures themselves. I…
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Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and Egypt- Africa is not a Country
Africa
https://vimeo.com/29956326 Through my presentation, I will break down common stereotypes and misconceptions about the continent of Africa. By engaging students in determining how Africa is not a count…
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Ghana and Uganda- Africa is not a Country
Africa, Ghana, Uganda
Introduction Hello, Nsanyuse okukulaba! My name is Leslie Willis. I am a senior Global Studies and Sociology double major at UNC. While I have lived in North Carolina my entire life, I love learning…
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My Experience with Carolina Navigators
Africa, Uganda
Through working with Carolina Navigators, I have gained an immense amount of knowledge about how to share intercultural experiences, how to write lesson plans, how to work with a diverse group of stud…