News from
WIACT & Friends
Coming Soon: August 22nd, 4:30-6:30pm. I am so pleased and excited to invite you to World Institute of Africa Culture and Traditions's (WIACT) first community gathering in Tucson, kindly hosted at the Dunbar Pavilion. Our work is just beginning here as WIACT-US, and we want you to be part of its development. Please see attached flyer.
May 2025: Rashid Iddrisu presents at Ethnobiology Conference in US, on How Plants Heal
March 2025: RISE interns arrive to WIACT; hold workshop on true meaning of Damba Festival convened by Rashid Iddrisu and Adams Jeduah
Sept-Oct 2024: Rashid Iddrisu and UA Professors Brogden and Baro attend Damba Festival in Kong
June 2024 Rashid and Prof Mette present theory and practice of social salutogenesis at a EU Salutogenesis conference in Lodz Poland
May 2024, with sorrow we report the passing of esteemed elder Bimata Buah.
April 2024, Kongwura and Rashid travel afterwards to UA Campus Tucson, visit BKW farms near Marana, which has been operating since 1930. Cattle are raised on the farm for fertilizing fields, and they grow wheat and specialty mushroom crops. And San Xavier mission south of Tucson
Mar-2024 Rashid Iddrisu and Kongwura travel to Santa Fe New Mexico to present at a conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology about chieftaincy issues and land tenure in Savannah Region, Ghana
Oct 2023 Rashid and Prof Mette present workshop on African indigenous education at a conference in Monterey, California, USA
Jan-March 2023 Rise Interns visit WIACT in Sawla three visit between april and june 2024; four visit March 2025.
May 2022 Rashid and Prof Mette present workshop on migratory journeys at European Conference in Tallinn, Estonia
Aug 2021: Workshops for training in traditional language documentation
Feb 29 2020: Presented project to rebuild the traditional Palace of the Yagbonwura at Nyane; for Gonja Traditional Council, Buipewura presiding. 60 attendees, well received. However, Covid 19 was fast spreading across the world and Kokota Intl Airport shut down on the 20th of March, delaying forward planning/implementation.
Nov 2019: At Damba Festival in Buipe Traditional Area with Prof Mette, her first visit to Ghana
Sept-Oct 2019: Rashid Iddrisu visits UA and gives lectures in Departments of Linguistics, Anthropology, Human Rights Practice, and International Development Practice, on migration from West Africa to Europe, and the importance of indigenous knowledge in overcoming emerging problems across the world. Prof Mette, Rashid then travel to Dayton to present a panel on human rights in Ghana at the annual Human Right Conference.