2012 Consultation & Conference
Hope Is as Strong as a Woman’s Arm:
Mobilizing amidst Violence against Women and Girls
in Africa and Its Diaspora
Talitha Qumi Center, Legon, Ghana – July 8-14, 2012
The first Consultation of African and African Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology was held July 8-14, 2012, at the Talitha Qumi Center, Legon, Ghana. Women from Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, and the United States discovery, relationship-building, and conversation. In addition to presentations and discussion on the meeting theme Hope Is as Strong as a Woman’s Arm: Mobilizing amidst Violence against Women and Girls of Africa and Its Diaspora, conferees visited Cape Coast and El Mina castles of enslavement and met in focus groups to strategize for future collaboration.