2012 Consultation

Name: 2012 Consultation
Start: 2012-07-08
End: 2012-07-14
Location: Talitha Qumi Center

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.