August 2023 – Joint student field trip to/in Ghana with graduate geography students & lecturers of UFR and University of Ghana

The Ghana field trip of the graduate program led UFR students and lecturers for the first time in the entire history to West Africa. The field trip had been organized by Prof. Hartmut Fünfgeld and Friedrich Neu in collaboration with Dr. Austin Ablo, Dr. Ernest Agyemang and Dr. Bismark Asitoakor (all from UG). A group of 18 German and 13 Ghanaian students spent two weeks in the southern part of Ghana and explored questions of resource geographies during interactions with company representatives (e.g. gold miners), basic workers (e.g. cocoa farmers or fish mongers), and decision makers (e.g. local council officials or chiefs). A blog on the field trip will soon be available. more ...