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.
Aseye Tamakloe
Director
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
Now and Then68%
Misbehaviour63%
On the Basis of Sex73%
Suffragette72%
Escape from Pretoria71%
Jane Fonda in Five Acts71%
RBG74%
Mona Lisa Smile69%
W.E.63%
Inside Deep Throat64%
Becoming Led Zeppelin74%
If These Walls Could Talk 265%
Iron Jawed Angels67%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
The Tale70%
The Iron Lady63%
Girl Asleep60%
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind78%
Strike!63%
Woman Times Seven62%
