Dear Students,
I want to apologize for our late arrival.
Your president declared 2019 as the Year of Return. But the graduate program in Global Multimedia Journalism & Communication that we are bringing to Ghana does not open until September of this year. Still we feel a special connection to Ghana. In 1960, Morgan State University gave W.E.B. Du Bois – who lived in the shadow of our school for two decades – an honorary degree. The following year Du Bois made Ghana his home.
For much of his life, Du Bois was a global journalist who wrote often about events in Africa and throughout the African diaspora. In many ways his journalism seemed to reflect Kwame Nkrumah’s belief that journalists “cannot be neutral between oppressor and oppressed, between the corruptor and the victim of corruption, between exploiter and exploited, between betrayer and betrayed.”
Our graduate program in Global Multimedia Journalism & Communication will challenge you to use the new tools of newsgathering and dissemination, while challenging you to rethink the role and responsibilities of journalists in the 21st century.
In September and the months to follow, you will meet some of our faculty in Accra. But you will have access to many others online. I hope to meet you soon.
Welcome to Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism & Communication!
