Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin shares history as she teaches theatre

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin helms a team of theater professionals to develop the musical, which explores three exhibits about black culture on display at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The first exhibit, known as Darkest Africa, featured 98 west and central Africans brought to the U.S. to live in a re-created Disney World kind of attraction that simulated an African village.

Imagine being a student with regular contact with such a engaged scholar. The world would open up to you in ways that perhaps have occurred to very few people, and you would graduate and go out into it with a creative perspective that would be welcome in any field - and necessary to most. Exciting to consider the impacts on our students from one of our best - Dr. Amma, as she is affectionately known - who pursues her professional goals and brings their lessons to the classroom as she readies them for the stage. #thisisuga

Image: Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, photo by Chad Osburn