Stephen Akortsu Mawumenyo

Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1828 as the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and Antoinette Dunant-Colladon. His family was devoutly Calvinist and had significant influence in Geneva society. His parents stressed the value of social work, and his father was active helping orphans and parolees, while his mother worked with the sick and the poor. Dunant grew up during the period of religious awakening known as the Réveil, and at age 18 he joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. In the following year, together with friends, he founded the so-called "Thursday Association", a loose band of young men that met to study the Bible and help the poor, and he spent much of his free time engaged in prison visits and social work. On 30 November 1852, he founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA and three years later he took part in the Paris meeting devoted to the founding of its international organization. In 1849, at age 21, Dunant left the Collège de Genève due to...

  1. Fifi speaks to the heart of the people in a language they understand better because he is a political economist/Financial analyst with practical understanding of the workings the economy and financial markets. Remember these days the people are interested in how they can put food on the table for their families, NOT just any general talk and empty claims of being consultants on democratic issues. Fifi is not just great at breaking down the most complex economic issues down to the understanding of the ordinary person but was a key member of the economic team that achieved some of the most unprecedented economic achievements in the history of Ghana- a feat that the NDC will continue to point to as being the superior group into whose hands Ghana must be entrusted. Fifi was not just a key member of that achievement but also the key spokesman who communicated those achievements with clarity and conviction. Fifi as CEO of the party will make the campaign in 2024 even easier- a campa...

Kofi Koranteng born 9 September 1966 is a Ghanaian activist and politician who used to be the chief executive officer of the Progressive Alliance Movement. He has been a key advocate for the rights of Ghanaians living abroad to be given the chance to vote and be represented in that manner through campaigning for the Representation of the Peoples’ Amendment Act (ROPAA) to be passed. In the run off to the election in December 2019, he declared his intention to stand for the 2020 Ghana elections as an independent candidate. Kofi Koranteng attended Primary School in Accra at Aggrey Memorial and continuing in Kumasi at Garrison Primary. He had his Senior High School Education from college at Adisadel College located in Cape Coast. He has a degree in Economics and Business from the New York University.  He served as chief executive officer of the Progressive Alliance Movement, a USA based non-political advocacy group. Through that he served as a lead campaigner of the advocacy group camp...

John Mahama, in full John Dramani Mahama, (born November 29, 1958, Damongo, Ghana), Ghanaian politician who became vice president of Ghana in 2009. After the death of Pres. John Evans Atta Mills in July 2012, Mahama ascended to the presidency. He was elected president later that year and served until 2017. Mahama was born into a politically active family. His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, served as a member of Parliament as well as a regional commissioner in the government of Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. John Mahama attended primary school at the Achimota School in Accra and attended the Ghana Secondary School in Tamale. He received a bachelor’s degree in history in 1981 from the University of Ghana, Legon, where he also completed postgraduate studies in communication in 1986. Mahama taught high-school history for a few years before pursuing a postgraduate degree in social psychology from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, which was awarded in 1988. After Mahama re...

Horace Mann, (born May 4, 1796, Franklin, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 2, 1859, Yellow Springs, Ohio), American educator, the first great American advocate of public education who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on well-trained professional teachers. Mann grew up in an environment ruled by poverty, hardship, and self-denial. He was taught briefly and erratically by comparatively poor teachers, but he managed to educate himself in the Franklin town library, and, with tutoring in Latin and Greek from Samuel Barrett (later a leading Unitarian minister), he gained admission at the age of 20 to the sophomore class at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). He did brilliant work at Brown, manifesting great interest in problems of politics, education, and social reform; his valedictory address, on the gradual advancement of the human race in dignity and happiness, was a model of humanitaria...