Justice Prof. Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu speaks at 2023 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures

Justice of Ghana's Supreme Court, Professor Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu will be speaking at the 2023 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series set to take place on April 26 and 27, 2023. 

Happening at  Great Hall, University of Ghana, the lecture will be on the theme "Resilience, Technology, and Humanism".

Day 1 of the lecture will discuss socio-economic phenomena such as urbanisation and growing inequality, which poses an existential threat to Ghana. 

“These internal distortions, make us more vulnerable to external threats from the subregion and must cause us to take active steps, mostly envisioned under the 1992 Constitution, to address them in order to protect the Ghana we have, so that we might progress to the Ghana we desire. 

I conclude with recommendations on what needs to be tackled in the immediate future, to face off the threats to the Ghana we have, and ensure our march to the Ghana we desire,” the abstract to the lectures reads.

On day 2, Justice Prof Mensa-Bonsu will focus on the constitutional framework in general, as well as issues pertaining to the human rights of the aged and persons with disability. 

“Is the State doing enough in this regard, beyond passing a Disability Act? Are State agencies doing their utmost to assure their welfare? I conclude with the position that the Constitution, even in its current state, is capable of serving its purposes as it has done these thirty past years. However, Constitutions do not implement themselves and so we must do our part, first to sustain its integrity, and then support its institutions to deliver on their mandate,” the abstract further reads. 

The Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series is an annual event in remembrance of James Kwagyir Aggrey, a scholar, Alexander G.Fraser, educationist and Gordon Guggisberg, Governor of the Gold Coast, all founding fathers of Achimota School.