Books For Africa Library Project - free public libraries in Ghana
Our Work in Ghana October 2025 through January 2026
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Dear Friends in Christ,
- Ghana Mission Summary, 2025-2026
Greetings from Ghana and St. Louis!
On the behalf of the Books For Africa Library Project Kirt and I would like to report on the mission work we did in Ghana from October 2025 to January 2026.
During this period, we purchased $5,000.00 worth of new books for the libraries, and held a three-day in-service in Kukurantumi focused on helping librarians improve the reading comprehension of students who come to their libraries; there’s more on this below. I continued teaching my youth group about traditional culture, the drumming, dancing and cooking. Periodically, we distributed eye glasses to townspeople, especially to the elderly. I continued to perform my chieftaincy duties, and was able to help the farmers seek greater protection for their crops from free-roaming cattle. Lastly, we attended the opening of our daughter of a small clinic in a town not too far from Kukurantumi, which was opened by our daughter, Dr. Afua Bromley. It was a busy time, but we were able to accomplish our work by the Grace of God.
To prepare for our annual librarian in-service, we met with the owner of the Sedco Publishing House in Accra and ordered $5,000 worth of textbooks from the national curriculum, children’s books by African Writers and 10 copies of our book The Lady Chief for each library. The multiple copies of our book are to be used for the reading clubs at the libraries. In order to promote the reading clubs, we made arrangements with two junior high schools in town to have about ninety of their students attend our in-service. After reviewing with the librarians as to how to do a reading club, we had the librarians lead small groups of students in reading and discussing one of the chapters in The Lady Chief. The students found it interesting to discuss a book about a local person and to learn about their local culture. Each of the librarians received about $312 worth of books. We also gave them a stipend to help with their travel.
I had a weekly meeting with 20 young junior high boys and girls. In addition to teaching them about traditional drumming and dancing, I taught them to cook some local food. I gave them a small stipend for attending weekly. We had a lot of fun. I organized a Christmas party for the children of the town as well. Throughout our stay, we had people coming to search through our selection of reading glasses.
My duties as a chief kept me very busy too. Our area has a cattle problem. For the past seven year some of the rich people in town have brought over a thousand cattle into our farming region. None of these cattle were fenced in, and herdsmen from the north allowed them to eat the crops which we worked so hard to plant. Kirt and I lost two acres of planted corn. In fact, all of our farmers suffered losses. We met with elected officials and the local police to complain about the situation, but nothing was done. We then helped organize the farmers and led a protest through town in early January, which terminated at our Municipal Assembly where we presented a petition to the Municipal Chief Executive, who is like a mayor for our area. Our protest made national news, and the following week over 50 police officers scoured our area to drive the cattle away. When we left Ghana last week, the farmers were continuing to meet and put pressure on the authorities to continue to seek a solution to this problem.
We thank God and you, our donors, for again helping to make the mission work successful. It’s been thirty years since we began Books For Africa Library Project. We have set up 64 libraries throughout Ghana, and we continue to support some of the librarians who come to us at the in-service. We believe that with your help, we have made a difference in the lives of many young children.
New Photos from our In-service
Some of Nana's activities
In November Nana has her annual thanksgiving festival. She is sitting in state with visitors.
Nana and her spokesperson are displaying foods which Nana will use to prepare a meal for visitors.
Nana protested the damage caused by cattle roaming throughout the town. Herdsmen from northern Ghana bribed some local officials to allow the cattle to roam through our farms.
Some of Nana's activities
This is the renovated health clinic in Ettukrom, where our daughter Dr. Afua Bromley is the development chief of the town.
At the grand opening of the Ettukrom Health Clinic, our daughter and the chief of the town spoke to the media.
Nana frequently visits the farms belonging to her as chief. She grows corn, plantain, cassava, yam, pineapple and bananas.