Ghana’s struggle for freedom and liberation is a long and arduous one. At its heart are women, with whose hands the country’s foundations were built. Ghana today stands on the toils of brave women and the sweat of their labour.
Yet this story has been largely erased by the violence of patriarchy. Women’s contributions to the independence struggle in the 1950s, and nation-building following independence from Britain in 1957, form a history that is barely taught in Ghanaian schools, if at all.
