A report on a Saginaw delegation’s visit to the newest sister city of Amanokrom, Ghana, was provided at Monday’s City Council meeting.
Seeds were planted five years ago when a group from the West African nation attended the 50th anniversary of the Saginaw African Cultural Festival. The covid pandemic interrupted further relationship-building until this year.
Amanokrom is 25 miles from Ghana’s coastal capital city, Accra, inland from the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf of Guinea.
Saginaw Valley State University has served as a centerpiece. Leading organizers are Joseph Ofori-Dankwa, SVSU professor of management, with connections to his birthplace, and Dawn Hinton, assistant vice-president of academic affairs. Furthermore, the council’s delegate on the July journey was George Copeland, a school improvement specialist for his alma mater, where he attained a b.a. in business administration.
Saginaw’s original sister city is Tokushima, Japan, going back to the early 1960s. Later efforts have dissolved with Zapopan, Mexico, and with Awka, Nigeria. To view the Amanokrom presentation, click here.
