When Women Speak
Traces the stories of 16 Ghanaian women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. It follows their experiences (as told in their own words) as Ghana passed through periods of military, single-party and multi-party rule. These women were prominent in public life – in the law, the media, academia, politics, and various governmental and non-governmental organisations for women. Their stories tell us about the issues around which women mobilised, and their modes of activism and advocacy at home and abroad, during the ‘lost decades’. They challenge the popular perception that gender activism is a foreign import, which came from ‘the West’ and found its way to Ghana with the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.
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Traces the stories of 16 Ghanaian women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. It follows their experiences (as told in their own words) as Ghana passed through periods of military, single-party and multi-party rule. These women were prominent in public life – in the law, the media, academia, politics, and various governmental and non-governmental organisations for women. Their stories tell us about the issues around which women mobilised, and their modes of activism and advocacy at home and abroad, during the ‘lost decades’. They challenge the popular perception that gender activism is a foreign import, which came from ‘the West’ and found its way to Ghana with the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.
Madam Ekua Ansah–Eshon
Professor Florence Dolphyne
Mrs. Dorcas Coker–Appiah
Elizabeth Akpalu
Hilary Gbedemah
Professor Takyiwaa Manuh
Professor Akua Kuenyehia
Madam Elizabeth Ohene
Professor Dzodzi Tsikata
Mrs. Hannah Owusu–Koranteng
Mrs. Vicky Wireko–Andoh
Dr. Rose Mensah–Kutin
Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman–Rawlings
Joyce Rosalind Aryee
Pognaa Catherine Bob–Milliar
Mrs. Marian Tackie