One of the things I had promised to do this week is to blog about my experiences at the ‘Women Raising Millions’ training course being held in San Francisco by the Women’s Funding Network. Part of what has been great about this course has been the opportunity to learn from all the other women who […]
My flight left Accra, Ghana at about 22.30pm GMT and finally arrived in San Francisco, California at about 15.00(about 20.00 GMT) the following day. It took at least an hour to get through immigration…going through US immigration is probably one of the things I hate most about travelling to the US. I always find that […]
The Northern Region of Ghana has seen so much violence in recent times. The Bawku conflict has been the most prominent but now there appears to be new conflicts as a result of politics. For a relatively peaceful nation like Ghana this is a tragedy! Political campaigns should be focused on issues which are developmental […]
I am really looking forward to the ‘Women Raising Millions Training Program’ that I am attending next week in San Francisco, an interactive program designed to propel fundraisers to the next meeting. The trainers have generously agreed that I can update this blog (with the proper references of course) with some of the tips, techniques […]
I love salsa dancing and last Sunday went to my local salsa joint accompanied by my friends Kamau and Francis. During the week we met up at our local drinking spot Zars Zars, and somehow the conversation turned to salsa which gave me the opportunity to propound one of my strange theories on how salsa […]
Yesterday, several of my colleagues and I attended the opening ceremony of AMwA’s Regional African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) held in Ghana. The theme for this AWLI was ‘African Women’s Leadership and gender responsive poverty reduction strategies’ and the keynote speaker was the Honourable Hajia Alima Mahama. Now those of you who read my blogs […]
One of the most popular sessions at the International Aids Conference was probably the session on male circumcision (MC). The session room was so full that many of us had to go into the overflow room and watch the panel discussion on large TV screens. I was very suprised on several accounts. For one, male […]
I had dreams of blogging every day from Mexico with updates of the latest news from the International Aids Conference. I was going to be the Carrie Bradshaw of the development world and at the end of the night sit on my bed and blog away on my laptop. Well, those dreams have been thwarted! […]
I attended a workshop two days ago which was organised to disseminate details on a study of Trokosi practice in Ghana conducted by researchers from the University of Legon, Ghana. Tro means deity and kosi means slave or wife so Trokosi translates as slave or wife of the deity. The practice of Trokosi involves holding […]
Until recently I thought “wife beating” occurred mainly in rural communities amongst illiterate folks and not in urban areas like Accra. The whole neighbourhood of Nyaniba Estate was deprived of their sleep last night when a scream of a little girl woke us all up, ‘daddy stop, daddy stop!!!!’ was all we kept hearing. As […]