ABSTRACT
Academics must also keep in mind that students have different experiences based on their sociocultural and historic contexts. As a result, it is necessary to consider the particular backgrounds and circumstances of Indigenous students when decisions regarding acceptance into university programs or funding are being made. As was then the practice at the University of Ghana, students were admitted and subjects assigned to them by the admissions board: the author was assigned archaeology, history, and religion. Although the author accepted these courses, my intention was to switch from archaeology to geography upon registration. However, after completing most of the steps needed to do so, it ran into the biggest obstacle: the dean of social sciences, who was the only person with the power to effect such a change. The dean, Professor James Anquandah, was the head of the Archaeology Department and, as the author later came to know, was the pre-eminent native Ghanaian archaeologist.
