Accra -Imagine a future Africa where patriarchy is dead and more women are economically empowered to provide for their own basic needs; one in which they continue to shatter the proverbial glass ceilings to occupy top leadership positions in all spheres.

Ghana's long-standing challenges can only be overcome through ambitious and sustained reforms in key policy areas which go beyond the central government to encompass the broader public sector, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief of Mission, Natalia Koliadina, has indicated.

Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar.