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Spring 2014 grad awarded paid internship at Ghana’s National Museum

Chanelle Nicole Frazier first went to Ghana as an African American Studies Scholar in 2013

Ms. Frazier

Chanelle Nicole Frazier, a Spring 2014 graduate, has been awarded a paid internship at the National Museum in Accra, Ghana.

Frazier earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History degree and has worked at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston for five years.

In Ghana, she will work on museum conservation, audience development, and museum marketing and branding under the direction Akousa Saah Backman, the National Museum’s head curator.

The National Museum is located in the Ghanaian capital city and is the nation’s largest and oldest museum. It opened on March 5, 1957, the eve of Ghana’s Independence Day.

Frazier first traveled to Ghana in summer 2013 as a student in the African American Studies Program’s study abroad course. She received a 2013 Kwame Nkrumah Study Abroad Scholarship to cover some of the costs of the trip. She is also a 2012 recipient of the Friends of African American Studies Scholarship,

Frazier first traveled to Ghana in summer 2013 as a student in the African American Studies Program’s study abroad course. She received a 2013 Kwame Nkrumah Study Abroad Scholarship to cover some of the costs of the trip. She is also a 2012 recipient of the Friends of African American Studies Scholarship,

She said that while she was standing on a dirt road, looking up at a sky “littered with stars” that she had the overwhelming feeling that she was in the place she needed to be.

“I promised myself I would return to Ghana within a year’s time,” she said.

Promise kept.

- By African American Studies News Staff