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Coordinator, Windhoek, Namibia of 150 women producing embroidery interior texles.

Master s Degree, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 09/1999 – 12/2002

Board Chair, Norwegian Council for Africa, Oslo, 2006 – 2008

Board Chair, Akwaaba dance group, Oslo, 2009 – 2020

Founder, Asase Beads & Baskets, distribung arts and cras from Ghana, 2022

Creative Fatigue, and Overcoming Virtual Training Challenges

Madam PeaceEnyonamBaku in her presentaon said that she had prepared for an exhibion in the United States of America prior to the COVID-19 announcement. . According to Madam Peace she has worked so hard for the exhibion, producingawiderangeofwearableartproducts.

When COVID-19 lockdown restricons were announced, she could not aend the exhibion. Madam Peace said that the experiencewas an an-climax, so she didn't create anymore.

Before her presentaon, she welcomed everyone back into communion with each other as arsts aer over three years apart. COVID-19 lockdown restricons were very ght in Accra, she noted. However, for people in the regions for example, she could visit her farms to harvest foodtocookforherfamily.

Madam Peace said that she received another invitaon to training at a drug rehabilitaon center in the United States of America. Before she could prepare, she realized that the host had contracted Coronavirus, then her husband. Moreover, she was planning to do in-person training and had concerns about contracng Coronavirus, so she declinedtheinvitaon.

Fortunately, she had an opportunity to offer another trainingonZoomandthechallengewastolearnhowtouse the Zoom app for the training. Madam Baku said her Zoom teachers were not friendly to adult students, so she stoppedusingZoom.

Aer several discussions with her host about how to use ICT to share her skills, another opportunity came for her to develop training videos on her bak e and die producon. Aer several trial and error and eding, she produced the trainingvideos.

According to Madam Peace, the training videos really served its purpose. The children enjoyed the skills training process. They gave feedback on the training and always saidcome,Ghanacome.

women in the arts share experiences on “digitall: innovaon and technology for gender equality” within the COVID-19 context.

An honourable member of a local government.

Peace Enyonam Baku formed her own company in 1980 to commercialize her talents. She opened a workshop adjacent to the El-Wak Military Sports Stadium. It was a very popular locaon in the El-Wak military sports stadium area as the only female “sign and banner writer” for adversing and promoons. This was before she moved to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to expand her horizons. Enedas Art & Cras has since widened its scope of acviesto includeGraphic DesignTexles – Weaving,Dyeing,Prinng,Painng, Sculptures,Poery&Ceramics,Landscape&DecoDesignandGeneralArtWorks.

In order to take advantage of the primary economic acvity of women in her tradional area which is rice farming and also assist the local women to improve on their producon, Madam Peace Baku established Enedas Farms & Foods for her own rice farming acvies, processing and distribuon of Mountain Brown Rice grown. As one of the founding members of the Avame Women's Associaon, she facilitatedtheacquisionoftwopowerllersandaricemillfortheassociaon.