The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (Girl – Child Education Unit) with support from UNICEF-Ghana under the Integrated Social Services (ISS) delivery program worked together in sensitizing ten (10) communities/schools on Child Protection Issues in the AJUMAKO-ENYAN-ESSIAM DISTRICT. The objective of the program is to empower children […]
Author Archives: afrisearch
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Feb
Feb
Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar! In addition to her own business, she taught skills to other women and co-founded Women’s World Banking (WWB), a global micro-lending organisation. On its website, the WWB microlending network says it lends to 16,4 million women around […]
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Jan
Jan
Rev. Bro Pius Kweku Agyeman, SVD, is a prolific Catholic Composer and a Historian with Vast Knowledge in Ghanaian Culture. The SVD attached to his name means he is a member of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.), a Roman Catholic religious organization, composed of priests and brothers, founded in 1875 at Steyl, Netherlands […]
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Dec
Dec
A shameful legacy that echoes into the present — and shouldn’t be buried in the history books. In the late 1800s, colonial exhibits became popular in the western world — exhibits that not only showcased artifacts but actual people. In the era before cinema, these shows allowed westerners to see the foreigners they’d only heard […]
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Dec
Dec
After the death of Ago, his successor Ago Akoli became king just before the middle of the seventeenth century. According to all accounts he was an energetic and dynamic leader, and he ended some of the proscriptions that inhibited the exercising of his function as leader. Unfortunately, things were not exactly the same during the […]
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Nov
Nov
In the 1940s, there was a segregated hospital located on the hill over-looking Bantama Township called: African and European Hospitals. As their names implied, the African side treated Africans while the European side treated Europeans. However, on some rare occasions, high-ranking African government officials were given treatment in the European section. (Executive Treatment) By 1952, […]
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May
May
Democracy is undergoing an “alarming” decline across the world as a growing number of countries move towards authoritarian rule, according to the Freedom House think tank. The US organisation’s annual “Freedom in the World” report found 2018 was the 13th consecutive year of deteriorating freedoms around the globe. A total of 68 countries suffered a […]
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May
May
The United States has a complex Government System. One important tenet of this system is democracy, in which the ultimate power rests with the people. In the case of the United States, that power is exercised indirectly, through elected representatives. Although the U.S. has been a strong proponent of democracy, it did not invent democracy. […]
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May
May
She was born Deborah Nana Yaa Brefo in Takoradi in the Western Region, but later moved to Accra. According to Nana Yaa, her father decided to erase Deborah from her name when she was a child. According to Nana Yaa, she has four other siblings (two sisters two brothers) and she is the last born. […]
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May
May
Samuel Ampah aka KAHPUN (Heart of African Reggae/Dancehall) is an award winning multi-talented artiste & song writer born and raised in Cape coast, Ghana on June 6, 1989. He had passion for arts at a tender age and enjoyed writing poems and lyrics as his hobby during school days Kahpun completed University Junior High School […]
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Apr
Apr
Bowdich suggests that “The Ashantees and their neighbors must have again been disturbed from time to time, by the several emigrations of the nations of the Mediterranean, whom Buache [Boakye?], in his researches for the construction of a map of Africa for Ptolemy, has at once discovered, by the identity of the names, in the […]