The global sociological imagination is an extension of American sociologist Charles Wright Mills’ sociological imagination (1959), which posits a link between personal biographies and societal histories, private problems and public issues, the present with the past. Having the global sociological imagination enables us to develop a keen   of the fact that our actions, seemingly inconsequential, do have ramifications, rippling far beyond our immediate environments and our shores. Think about it. Have you eaten chocolate or had a cup of cocoa drink or hot chocolate of late? If you have, chances are that the chocolate bar you ate or the cocoa drink you had contained beans from the cocoa trees I planted some thirty years ago in Teawiah, a.k.a. Owiafi (Sunrise Village). Canada imports cocoa beans and cocoa products from various countries, including Ghana. Thus, the cocoa beans I planted as a child are today providing nourishment to you and hundreds of thousands of your compatriots and employment to even more Canadians who work in the chocolate industry. That is not all. All my education, from high school to graduate school, was paid for by people I call my unsung heroes and heroines in villages and cottages across Ghana. Money set aside by cocoa farmers in Ghana in the form of the Cocoa Marketing Board Scholarship Scheme financed my education. And here I am today, an instructor in Canada, helping in my own small way, to educate the future leaders of this country, my new found home. But my education would have been impossible without Canadians buying cocoa products, including chocolate and cocoa drinks. What’s more, my biography as a Ghanaian-Canadian professor is ineluctably linked with the roles and actions of individuals and forces in the history Ghana, including Ghana’s national hero, Tetteh Quarshie, the Ghanaian farmer, who introduced the plant from the Fernado Po Island (in New Guinea), now called Bioko and the British colonial administration, which encouraged/forced Ghana to specialize in cocoa production as part of her grand scheme of imperial division of labour. Canadian communication studies scholar and social philosopher Marshall McLuhan put us all in the Global Village, where willy-nilly, for better or for worse, we inhabitants are increasingly becoming interconnected, integrated, intermixed, intermingled, and interdependent. Whatever happens at one corner of the village affects all of us almost instantaneously. It is my hope that this course will ignite your global sociological imagination to fire you up to see your own place in the tangled web of the global scheme of things and sensitize you to appraise what role you can play in making our global village at least a little better than it is today, keeping in mind that your actions and inactions affect all members of the village in one way or another. For as Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963) so beautifully put, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single  garment of destiny.” “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”