As priestesses, queen mothers, diviners, and healers, they exercised ritual power that legitimized leadership, protected communities, and strengthened resistance efforts. 

Through ancestral invocation, protective rites, and medicinal knowledge—served as forms of psychological and metaphysical resistance during slavery and colonialism.  By preserving and transmitting sacred traditions, women sustained cultural identity and collective consciousness. 

Women’s spiritual agency was central, not peripheral, to African liberation!

Presenter: Puduo Nana Baffour-Awuah Gyawu-Kyem

It’s a Free and in-person event at Akan Collective, located at 49 Gouda Street, 2nd Floor, Elmina.

Registration is Required as space is limited. If you you have already registered, we will have your name on the list. 

Space is limited

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