Imagine the different future scenarios of our oceans under an extractive versus a stewardship Blue economy model. What would ecological, economic, and social outcomes look… Read More »The Blue Economy: To extract or to steward?
How we measure, value and govern marine life shapes what “sustainable” oceans look like, and that question sits at the heart of Dr Alba Serrat… Read More »What Matters in the Sea?
A Window into Historical Coastal Life, Tradition, Change and Hope A review by Kwesi B. Randolph Johnson Released on 6 March 1958, exactly a year… Read More »A Review of the Family of Ghana (1958) Documentary
To climax the regional validation events, the Sankofa Report and the Ocean Literacy Storybook, two key outputs from the Sankofa project, were launched by the… Read More »Sankofa Report & Ocean Literacy Storybook
The national event to validate findings across the four coastal regions of Ghana followed shortly after the stakeholder event, which validated findings from the Greater… Read More »Sankofa Research Validation with National Stakeholders and Fisherfolk
Concluding the research validation with fisherfolk across the four coastal regions, the Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood with support from the Sankofa research team,… Read More »Sankofa Research Validation with Greater Accra Region’s Fisherfolk & Stakeholders
Continuing the validation of research findings with stakeholders across the four coastal regions, engagements with fisherfolk and stakeholders in the Volta Region occurred on Wednesday,… Read More »Sankofa Research Validation with Volta Region’s Fisherfolk & Stakeholders
On 27 January 2026, the Sankofa research team and collaborators, led by Dr Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, the Principal Investigator (PI) on the project, held the regional… Read More »Sankofa research validation with Central Region fisherfolk & stakeholders
The year has been a fruitful one in the ISIPSK (Sankofa) camp. We continued to deepen relationships with fisheries stakeholders and commenced the sharing of… Read More »ISIPSK (Sankofa) 2025 In Review
‘San-kofa’, translated from Akan means “go back and get it”. Sankofa, is also an Adinkra symbol of the Akan people of Ghana that embodies the… Read More »‘Sankofa’ in Policy and Practice: Valuing Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Sustainable Fisheries Management