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Massive Child Protection Sensitisation Organised in Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District

afrisearch — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:45:57 +0000

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 [...]

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Celebrating The Iconic Esther Ocloo 20 Years After Her Death

afrisearch — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:42:18 +0000

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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Rev. Bro Pius Agyeman: The Prolific Catholic Composer and Cultural Revolutionary

afrisearch — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:40:00 +0000

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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Human Zoos: Untold History of Suppression

afrisearch — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:22:28 +0000

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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Detailed History of The Ewes: The Founding of Agavedzi, Klikor and Bomigo

afrisearch — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:22:03 +0000

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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Why The komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is Called “Gee”

afrisearch — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:02:00 +0000

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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Democracy is Devouring Itself Part 2

afrisearch — Fri, 29 May 2020 23:16:47 +0000

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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Democracy is Devouring Itself

afrisearch — Fri, 29 May 2020 23:11:51 +0000

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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Biography of Ace Broadcaster Nana Yaa Brefo

afrisearch — Wed, 27 May 2020 18:58:05 +0000

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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Fast Rising Ghanaian Dancehall Artiste: KAHPUN

afrisearch — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:18:30 +0000

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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