Just like with feminism, I would say step to the side or to the back. Allow the people for whom this is life and death to take the lead. We all live … - Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Step to the side or to the back. Allow the people for whom this is life and death to take the lead. We all live on this planet, need each other’s support.

If you’re not careful, a movement can lose its edge. Other people can appropriate it for their own careers, It becomes devalued.

This may be pie in the sky, but we should be looking for more money locally. There’s a lot of money in Africa – I’ll give one example: when the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana was putting together a sexual harassment policy in the early 2000s and needed to do some research, one of the women on our steering committee said ‘I’ll speak to my Church’. She comes back with some money for us – it’s an example we don’t normally think about. Many of the big churches are extremely wealthy, are very good at raising money. We haven’t approached them enough, with a proposal they would be comfortable with.

I urge the Ministry of Education to make history a compulsory subject in schools. That would enable young people to know their true identity as Ghanaians and Africans, and empower them to become responsible citizens.