Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Amma Darko uses fiction to portray the real plight of women and street children in Ghana

Amma Darko uses fiction to portray the real plight of women and street children in Ghana

AMMA Darko is one of Ghana’s leading novelists, known for exploring gritty social issues and the lives of women. There is much to be unearthed in the childhood narrative of deprivation and danger that she tackles in her 2003 work Faceless. Authors PULENG SEGALO, Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa THERESAH PATRINE ENNIN, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Cape Coast Faceless is the story of an investigation into the death of a young girl called Baby T, a child sex worker whose naked body is found dumped behind a marketplace, beaten and mutilated. During the progression…
Read More
Young people living on Harare’s streets provide glimpses into life under COVID-19 lockdown

Young people living on Harare’s streets provide glimpses into life under COVID-19 lockdown

LORRAINE VAN BLERK, Professor, University of Dundee JANINE HUNTER, Researcher, University of Dundee WAYNE SHAND, Honorary research fellow, University of Manchester THE lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, has had drastic effects on children and young people who live on the streets of many African cities. Their lives, even in “normal” times, are marked by ongoing hardship and tenacity. We work on a project called “Growing up on the Streets” in three African cities: Accra, Ghana; Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Harare, Zimbabwe. The aim is to provide insights into their daily lives…
Read More