Gertrude Fefoame
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, was educated in Ghana from primary to tertiary schools. She was trained as a teacher and has a masters degree in governance and leadership and a masters in theology. For many years, Mrs. Fefoame has been an advocate/activist on disability. She is currently the Sightsavers global advocacy adviser for social inclusion, and is a member of the United Nations committee that monitors the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Mrs. Fefoame has run many workshops, talks and seminars all over the world.
Agya Koo Nimo
Agya Koo Nimo is one of the last true veterans of highlife and palm-wine music, which dominated Ghana's popular music scene throughout much of the twentieth century. Using stories and singing, the veteran tells stories of the royal Ashanti court and the history of the Ashanti people. He was the first Ghanaian to release a CD, Osabarima. He has received the Grand Medal for Lifetime Service to Ghana, and huge acclaim worldwide, playing in Europe, Africa, and America.
Professor Kofi Asare Opoku
Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku is the Vice-President of the Africa University College of Communications Accra. He is also a former chair of the Ghana Institute of African Studies, Legon and a retired Professor of African Traditional Religion from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, USA. An accomplished writer and speaker, and a friend of the Witness Tree Institute of Ghana, Kofi Asare Opoku has delivered numerous lectures on African culture and religion across the world.
Some of Kofi Asare Opoku’s books are West African Traditional Religion, Speak to the Winds: Proverbs from Africa, Healing for God’s World: Remedies from Three Continents and Hearing and Keeping: Akan Proverbs,
Professor Asare Opoku is the owner and “guardian” of a sanctuary of medicinal plants on acres of land he calls Ananse Kwae (The Spider’s Forest). Here the retired professor has presided over numerous “conversations” on plant medicine, African culture and spirituality and the wisdom of ancestors.
Pashington Obeng
Pashington Obeng was educated in Ghana, Canada and the United States of America. He is an educator and minister who has taught in Ghana and universities in Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University specializing in religion and cultural communication, and has written many books including Rural Women's Power in South Asia: Understanding Shakti, Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana. Pashington has also done postdoctoral studies both at Harvard University, and at St. Antony’s College, England, and is currently a professor at Ashease University in Ghana.
Elizabeth Aikins
Elizabeth Aikins is an educator who has taught art for many years. Elizabeth, who holds a Masters of Arts Degree is also the vice principal of the Accra College of Education, and cherishes and respects the pivotal role she plays in the lives of her students. She has taken part in several regional art exhibitions and education workshops. Elizabeth is also a philanthropist, and enjoys being a wife, mother and lover of music and singing.
Jennies Darko
Dr. Jennies Darko is an ethnomusicologist. She is a Lecturer at the Department of Dance Studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon. Having been a dancer and a dance teacher for over thirty years. She has performed in Nigeria and the United States of America as well as in dramas and movies. Jennies Darko has also done work on the impact of dance in mental health, advertising, domestic violence and religious identity.
Michael Owusu-Manu
An Agricultural Economist, Mr. Michael Owusu-Manu, is a Technical Advisor on cocoa to the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Mr. Owusu-Manu holds an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Until his appointment, he was the Head of Economics Department of the Alliance of Cocoa Producing Countries (COPAL) based in Lagos, Nigeria. He was also a Research Officer with the Ghana Cocoa Board before taking on the COPAL appointment.