Women’s empowerment in Ghana is making progress through different programs, including educational initiatives, legal reforms, and economic transformation. Ghana has implemented strategic initiatives ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of ...

A GNA feature by Comfort Sena FetrieTema, Feb. 03, GNA – Across many farming communities in Northern Ghana, women routinely ...

Mona Boyd, an African American woman and entrepreneur who has called Ghana home for more than 30 years, is the owner of AnoMansa Beach Resort, located just six minutes from the historic Elmina Castle ...

ACCRA, GhanaACCRA, Ghana — Misper Apawu is a photographer who works with The Associated Press in Ghana. She has covered politics, breaking news and sports. This feature is part of a series ...

A Richmond nonprofit that has spent more than two decades empowering young Black girls is now planning to take 18 students on a heritage journey to Ghana.

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...

A six-month pregnant Nigerian woman in Ghana seeks support to escape the adult entertainment industry and rebuild her life, highlighting migrant struggles abroad.

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, daily to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition she’s ...