My Ph.D. Success Story at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana [2019-2023]

Abstract

I am Dr. Philip J. Kamanda, a Sierra Leonean, Ghanaiantrained academic, and lecturer at Njala University in Sierra Leone. In addition, I am a proud and fine alumnus of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. As a former Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in the Agricultural Economics and Extension Department at the University of Cape Coast, my Ph.D. journey commenced in the 2019/2020 academic year with a two-semester coursework totaling seven courses. After my coursework in my first year of study, I successfully defended my research proposal and left for Sierra Leone in early February 2021 for field data collection