Maame (Mother), Elizabeth Allua Vaah’s first book of linked short stories about women in a rural community in the South Western tip of Ghana called Aakonu was launched on Friday, December 11, 2020. The event, in the form of a virtual fireside chat featured the author, Elizabeth Allua Vaah in an engaging conversation with Anna …
The year 2020 sure is one for the history books. It is what one will call “Santrofi anoma. Wo fa no a, woafa mbusu. Wo gyae no a, woagyae ade pa” It is turning out to be both a major curse and a huge blessing. The year of a major pandemic, of a type many …
It was just a matter of time. In many villages in Ghana, vulnerable elderly women are tagged as witches. They are loathed and ostracized. In many cases, their own children, some educated and living in the cities, abandon them because their pastors, people who never knew they existed until they showed up in their churches …
You are not in Ghana. Why do you care?This is a question I get often, either in response to my facebook posts or input in WhatsApp groups. I have been tagged NDC for my views. Not that I care. I don’t. Why do I post about happenings in Ghana when I don’t live there? I …
Once upon a time Ghana was doing all the right things to flatten the curve But Covid-19 is no respecter of persons We locked down hotspots in the country when infections were under 2000. But Covid-19 is no respecter of persons Then came time to consider political interests But Covid-19 is no respecter of persons …