S E239: My Trip to Ghana (Ep. 1): Expect the Unexpected

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Karen and her friends Dr. Michelle Yeboah and Dr. Nana Yaw Adu Sarkodie discuss discovering Ghana for the first time and all over again.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So I made it to Ghana, a crop to be exact and I came here with an enormous amount of faith.
0:22.0	First of all, y'all know I don't like to fly.
0:23.8	I hate flying.
0:24.7	It was a 10-hour flight.
0:26.1	I survived.
0:27.2	Wasn't anxious, didn't have nervous breakdown,
0:29.7	as I do on two-hour flights.
0:31.5	This was peaceful.
0:33.5	Got here, didn't really know what to expect.
0:37.2	So two folk that I met on my radio show
0:41.2	said that they were going to join, they were going to come to Africa and show me around. show
0:44.0	and they were going to join, they were going to come to Africa and show me around.
0:45.0	Now, I didn't put any stock in it.
0:46.0	I didn't have any expectations.
0:48.0	I had a whole tour thing set up.
0:50.0	I had paid for it through another organization,
0:52.0	this year of return to Ghana and a couple of things
0:57.0	happen first of all the hotel that I wanted to stay in sold out the next hotel was out. So I had to rely on another buddy that got me a condo,
1:07.0	which turned out to be the most amazing turn of events for me in my visit here because it just opened the whole world and the
1:16.3	condo came with a driver. But let me welcome, we're in Africa right now, we're in Ghana.
1:21.1	People like be specific, they're 57 countries, Yes, we're in Ghana. We're in
1:24.6	our crowd to be exact. We're in a very nice neighborhood across the street from the former
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