ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic changes in all aspects of daily life. Ghanaians were ordered to stay home, resulting in an abrupt shift in working from offices toward working from home. At the tertiary level, university campuses were closed to staff and students. This autoethnographic piece reflects on the challenges but also opportunities for conducting effective teaching and learning for first-year undergraduate Sociology students in a developing country context during the outbreak of a global pandemic. This piece is from the perspective of marginalized voices in global discourse, in this instance, a lecturer and her students. Though the global pandemic turned our lives upside down, it also enabled us to imagine newer ways of teaching and learning. During these unprecedented times, the major challenges my students and I faced regarding teaching and learning included lack of internet access especially in rural areas, unstable internet connection and high internet cost. Despite these challenges, the pandemic also presented opportunities for us to develop innovative ways of dealing with these issues. We used a plethora of avenues to teach and interact with students including Sakai, WhatsApp, and emails.
