Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Suzanne P. Clark to become first female CEO of U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The US Chamber of commerce has appointed Suzanne Clark as it’s next CEO, the first woman to hold the position.

 

Suzanne Clark


Suzanne P. Clark is an American business executive. She is currently the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will succeed Thomas J. Donohue. The position is effective on March 11. Clark was named president in June 2019.Clark sits on the corporate boards of TransUnion and AGCO, and the board of the Economic Club of Washington.In 2019, she was named among the "100 Most Powerful Women in Washington" by Washingtonian Magazine.

She has also held the roles of chief operating officer and senior executive vice president.She was previously president of National Journal Group, and founded and led the Potomac Research Group.

Thomas J. Donohue served as CEO of the U.S. chamber for 24 years.

 The Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation, representing more than 3 million businesses as well as state and local