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AWLN Ghana, AFLIGA pay courtesy call on GIS boss; explore partnership opportunities
By Benjamin A. Commey – GNA
Accra, Jan. 20, GNA – A joint delegation from the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN-Ghana) and the Africa Future Leaders Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA) has paid a courtesy call on Mr. Samuel Basintale Amadu, the Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), to explore areas of collaboration, particularly in advancing gender-responsive training programmes for female personnel of the Service.
The visit focused on discussions around strengthening women’s professional development, leadership advancement, and capacity building within the Ghana Immigration Service. The delegation was led by Dr. Charity Binka, Chairperson of AWLN-Ghana.
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AFLIGA, Frimpong Manso Institute partner to empower faith-based women and youth
By Benjamin A. Commey – GNA
Accra, Jan. 15, GNA – The Africa Future Leaders Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA) and the Frimpong Manso Institute have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly strengthen leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment for women and youth in Ghana, especially within faith-based institutions.
The partnership brings together AFLIGA’s expertise in civic leadership, enterprise development, and digital learning with FMI’s experience as a Christian national think-tank known for ethical, evidence-based interventions.
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AFLIGA Executive Director calls on Rwanda’s High Commissioner, explore youth, women empowerment
By Benjamin A. Commey – GNA
Accra, Feb. 04, GNA – Dr Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, The Executive Director of the Africa Future Leaders Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA), has paid a courtesy call on the High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda to Ghana, Her Excellency Rosemary Mbabazi, to explore strengthened collaboration on youth and women empowerment across Africa.
The high-level engagement focused on the role of Africa’s youth and women in a rapidly evolving global order shaped by geopolitical realignments, technological advancement, and shifting economic power.
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AFLIGA launches 2025 leadership report, calls for inclusive, African-centred governance
By Dr. Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director – AFLIGA
The Africa Future Leadership Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA) has launched its Policy Brief and Report as part of the 2025 edition of its Thought Leadership Series, renewing continental debate on women’s leadership, inclusive governance and African-centred solutions to development challenges.
Speaking at the launch, the Chairperson of the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Ghana, Dr Charity Binka, described the report as a reminder of Africa’s long-standing traditions of women’s leadership, stressing that African women “have always led” long before the advent of modern institutions and formal titles.
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Secular and Christian leadership: Reclaiming ethics and integrity for national development
By Dr. Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director – AFLIGA
Across our nation and continent, there is a growing cry for leadership that does more than manage systems — leadership that inspires trust, restores hope, and unites people around a moral and non-partisan national vision. From boardrooms to pulpits, from the corridors of government to the classrooms that shape the minds and character of our youth, it has become clear that progress without principle is fragile.
We are no doubt busily constructing roads, schools, hospitals and digital networks, yet we struggle to build the two things that sustains them all: principled character, integrity, and ethical leadership. Let’s be frank, Ghana’s development challenge is all about the missing architecture of character. Nothing more, or less.
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Partnership between AFLIGA, AWLN Ghana to empower young women across Africa
By Benjamin A. Commey – GNA
Accra, Jan. 10, GNA – The Africa Future Leaders Institute of Global Affairs (AFLIGA) and the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Ghana Chapter have entered into a partnership aimed at strengthening the capacity of women and young girls across Ghana and the wider African region.
The partnership brings together AFLIGA’s strengths in entrepreneurship and leadership development, digital learning, research, and policy engagement with AWLN’S extensive grassroot networks, gender advocacy leadership, and pan-African reach.
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Lifestyle vs. Legacy: How the pressure to “look good and successful” is undermining values and ethical behaviour in Ghana
By Dr. Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director – AFLIGA
In today’s Ghana, a silent but powerful cultural shift is underway. More and more, the pursuit of, and admiration for titles, status, expensive lifestyles, flashy appearances, and public displays of riches is overshadowing the virtues of modesty that once defined our national character.
A growing number of young people now believe that success must be loudly visible, and this desire to be seen as prosperous has become one of the subtle drivers of corruption and unethical behaviours across the fabric of our society in recent times.
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Silence and spectatorship: How passive citizenship is weakening Ghana’s democracy
By Dr. Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director – AFLIGA
One of the great strengths of Ghana’s democracy has been the active involvement and vibrancy of its people, their willingness to participate, debate, organise, and demand accountability.
Yet beneath the surface of this democratic tradition lies an emerging challenge that appears to threaten or undermine its resilience: the rise of passive citizenship.
Recent electoral data provide early warning signs of this shift. According to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), voter turnout in Ghana declined from about 77.83% in the 2020 general elections to approximately 60.88% in the 2024 elections, the lowest participation recorded in the last three electoral cycles (International IDEA, Voter Turnout Database).