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Ghana: Geneva Street to Named After Former World Council of Churches President Annie Jiagge
WCC, 30 September 2021
The city of Geneva is renaming a street for Annie Jiagge (1918-1996), who was the first African woman to be a World Council of Churches (WCC) president (1975-83). She was also… Read more »
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Africa: The WCC - Seventy-Five Years in Geneva, 1939-2014
WCC, 4 July 2014
When the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) convenes in plenary sessions during the course of its current meeting, the 150 representatives of member churches… Read more »
Geneva Street Named After Ghana's Pioneering Annie Jiagge
The city of Geneva is renaming a street for Annie Jiagge, who was the first African woman to be a World Council of Churches (WCC) president, from 1975 to 1983. Jiagge (1918-1996) was also moderator of the WCC's commission on the Programme to Combat Racism.
Jiagge, who was from Ghana, attended WCC assemblies at Evanston (1954), Uppsala (1968), Nairobi (1975), Vancouver (1983) and Canberra (1991) and served as counsellor for the Christian council in Ghana and as chair of the commission on the churches' participation in development. She practiced law in Ghana and was a magistrate, circuit court judge and high court judge.
The street-naming initiative in Geneva is highlighting women who contributed to the history of Geneva at different periods.
