Ghana

I attended the Associateship Programme at the African Gender Institute from May to August 2002. At that time I was at crossroads in my professional career. A few months earlier, I had completed an MPhil in Environmental Science at the University of Ghana, Legon. Around the same time too, I was a team member on the Women’s Health in the City of Accra Project, a collaboration between the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Michigan and the Institute of African Studies of University of Ghana, Legon…

Thanks to my parents I was nurtured into activism from a tender age just watching them speak and act out against social injustice in simple, everyday situations.  They would persist even when it meant standing alone.  I developed a consciousness about “justice”, even when the issues were ones I did not necessarily agree with or support.