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The Women Advancing Africa (WAA) Forum launched August 2017 in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam with a call on Women Empowerment to take centre stage in Africa’s economic liberation. The forum is an initiative of the Graça Machel Trust and celebrates the critical role women play in development. It also provides a platform to showcase women’s leadership and how that can be used …

Kate Bannerman-Lartey of blessed memory is the mother of Oral Ofori, Founder of #TheAfricanDreamLLC. Below is a brief bio of her and a tribute put together by her children and loved ones. Mr. Ofori read the tribute at her funeral service in Ghana held August 5, 2017, at the Mount Calvary Cross Ministry Church of Odorkor, Accra. She was interred at …

Fountain Gate Chapel (FGC) Virginia also known as Mount Zion Pastures presents ’The Watchman Assembly 2017’, a summer prayer conference at their Dumfries Virginia location in the US from August 10 through 13, 2017. The four-day event will be hosted by FGC Virginia head, Pastor Alex F. Agyemang who is going to be welcoming special guest Pastor Mike Ayikade. Pastor …

The Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) Alumni Association of North America (GAA) successfully raised a net amount of about $22,000 as they celebrated their 10th Anniversary and Annual Convention at a Fundraising Dinner Dance themed ‘The Role of the GAA – The Past, Present and the Future’. This happened on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in the United States (US) at the Marriott …

Afrobeats act Yine-Win known in personal life as Godwin Anonyine Akanyele revealed to TheAfricanDream.net that he is set to release his new song titled ‘Love In The Air’ at the end of July 2017 with his band – The Groove Music Band. Yine-Win said the song is meant to inspire people and make them feel loved, encouraged and cared about. He explained: …

His Excellency Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah, the new Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to the United States (U.S.) on the morning of Friday, July 21, 2017, presented his letters of credence together with the letter of recall of his predecessor, Ambassador Lt. Gen. Joseph Henry Smith (rtd.), to President Donald J. Trump of the U.S. at the Oval Office in …

Nearly 100 years before George Washington would sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Egya Amkwandoh was kidnapped from his native Ghana and brought to North America to be a slave. Amkwandoh was given the new last name, “Quando,” which later became “Quander,” and he became the first member of what is now considered the oldest documented African American family. The …

Monday July 17, 2017 — Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group is set to visit East Africa next week. Jack Ma, currently ranked as Asia’s riches man with a fortune valued to amount to nearly $30 billion will visit Kenya and Rwanda to share entrepreneurial insights with the region’s youth. The 52-year-old will …

Africa has had a quiet 2017 with economic growth slowly picking up, but that does not mean there is not much happening on the ground…quite the opposite, in both an economic and political sense, as certain influential women have played their part in the African context. Behind the scenes, these are the top five women with the greatest influence thus …

The Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) Alumni Association of North America celebrates its 10th Anniversary and Annual Convention with a Fundraising Dinner Dance on Saturday, July 22, 2017, starting at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church, Virginia, United States (US). Attending the anniversary as a Special Guest is Commodore Steve Obimpeh (Rtd) of ’61 year group, former …