As gender issues and land rights assume greater importance, how are Ghanaian women seeking to redefine the terms on which they gain access to and control of land? How are women farmers being affected by growing land scarcity? Is enough being done to enable poor women farmers to gain improved access to extension services and productive assets?

Participants at a workshop on the "Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons to Information and Communication" held at Abokobi, have endorsed the nomination of Nii Laryea Sowah, Editor of the "Spark" and Executive Secretary of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana as West-Africa Coordinator of the newly created West Africa Media Network For Refugees.

Deputy minister for finance Dr. Gheysilka Adombila Agambila has conceded that despite the president's declaration of zero tolerance for corruption, the government is still groping in the dark in its attempt to deal with the situation.

One hundred and fifty Liberian refugee children at the Buduburam Camp in the Central Region have been neglected by their biological parents and are having to fend for themselves.

In Ghana, picking up the telephone to call your auntie can require a lot of patience and some gritting of teeth. When making a call from mobile to fixed lines, almost half of telephone calls do not go through because of system failures. Businesses often have receptionists who spend most of their time just dialing numbers until they get through. Setting up an Internet café in such conditions is not ideal, but Mark Davies, an experienced ICT entrepreneur, recognised the demand and today he is the CEO of BusyInternet Accra, the biggest Internet cafe in Africa.

The recurrence of violent conflicts in the northern part of the country is one of the major factors that discourages doctors and other health workers from accepting postings to the area, says Doctor Elias Sory, Northern regional director of health.

Concern Universal's mission is to enhance the dignity and to improve the lives of people living in poverty; to enable people to help themselves by providing practical opportunities to create a better future; to work with determination and care to empower people in need, regardless of race, gender, religion or political affiliation.

Last Year alone, about 3,000 nurses left the country to seek greener pastures in other countries. This is the picture given by the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Jacob Plange-Rhule. Ten years ago, there were 20,000 nurses. Today there are 9,000, in spite of the increase in population and the growing number of health facilities.

Ghana's reconciliation commission has begun its second week of public hearings of horrific rights abuses and torture allegedly committed by past regimes, especially military governments.

A commission set up to investigate human rights abuses in Ghana has begun hearing petitions from people who say they, or their families, suffered during past periods of military rule. The National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), modelled on South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission, is looking into allegations of torture and killings.

A 15-month project initiated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and other bodies to help hundreds of child labourers in fishing communities in Ghana has received a "fantastic response" from fishermen, according to an IOM official.

A river and communities poisoned by a cyanide spill from a gold mine in 2001 may have been hit by another spill from the same mining company. Water from an abandoned underground mine within the mining concession of Goldfields Ghana Ltd. has seeped into the Asuman River in the Wassa West District of the Western Region, sparking fears of contamination and a worsening health situation for area communities.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI) are very much like identical twins in the government's economic policy. President Kufuor has made the development of ICT one of the cornerstones of his vision for Ghana's development. He has established a high-powered commission to oversee its development. The first two years of his administration have seen him also making first hand contacts around the world to interest investors in Ghana.

As part of activities marking 16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women declared by UNIFEM world wide, The Ark Foundation (Ghana), an advocacy-based women's human rights NGO undertook an educational campaign targeting nine communities in the Eastern Region of the country.

We organise work camp projects successfully with both international and local volunteers in any community in the volta region of Ghana. The project is run to help the community in building school, health posts and clinics. This project will need both local and international volunteers to help finish the work we have already started in the volta region of Ghana.

Muslim and Christian religious leaders will foster support and compassion for those living with HIV/AIDS under a new program launched in Ghana, where approximately a half-million people are living with the virus that causes AIDS. Reach Out, Show Compassion for people living with HIV/AIDS is the second phase of the successful Stop AIDS, Love Life national communication program, which began in February 2000.

Participants at a two-day training workshop on survivors of domestic violence have agreed that emotional, psychological and spiritual violence can be as devastating and destructive as physical violence.

The Awutu Bawjiase Rural Bank in the Central Region has granted over 786 million cedis in the form of loans to about 2,188 women under its "Credit With Education" (CWE) scheme. The scheme, apart from helping to alleviate the poverty of women and inculcating the habit of saving, also aims at educating them on environmental and domestic hygiene, family planning, home management, HIV/AIDS and ecological protection.

Adisata Ibrahim, a class five student from Ghana tells her story of how an NGO programme in educating girls in rural areas made her join a school. And with flexible hours, education did not come in the way of Adisata helping her mother in household chores.

Adu Boahen has been a leading figure in the writing of African history since the 1950s. His loud insistence that African history should be written from an African perspective has borne considerable fruits. The essays in this volume reveal the wide range of Adu Boahen’s scholarship, namely, a commitment to studying precolonial history, indigenous belief systems, inter-group relations, colonialism, and the challenges facing postcolonial Africa. In this collection, Ghana becomes the window to peer into Africanist scholarship and the world thus envisioned. The contributors are drawn from the students, peers, colleagues and successors of Adu Boahen; as they celebrate his scholarship, they lead us into the New Africa for which Boahen and the pioneers tirelessly worked.