In this issue, we look at the challenges and opportunities presented by Ghana’s continued positive growth story in Sustaining Ghana’s Growth.

In our spotlight on the African Diaspora, we speak to design professional Janet Andoh about how she overcame her challenges from motherhood to moving countries, and is now the founder of a successful design business in An Alpha Female.

In her Letters from Africa, Elvina Quaison reports on her first experience of voting in Ghana and December’s drama-filled elections in My First Ghana Election.

In our Careers section, Andrena Sawyer invites you to start a new year with a new attitude to networking in New Year's Resolution: Recognizing the Difference of Originality.

Use what happened in 2012 to help you plan ahead for this coming year. Careers Coach Mike Higgins offers a useful exercise to help you undertake your personal review of the past year in Review of the Year.Also in our Careers section, our careers coach offers advice on energizing your career in Ask the Career Coach – 'How Do I Get Out of My Career Rut?'.

In this issue, we also take a look ahead to the IFSEC West Africa 2013, where thousands of visitors from the continent and around the world are expected to attend Africa's most exciting security event.

Our guest interviewee in this month's '5 Minute Interview' is Anna Vanderpuye-Owunne – CEO of INGO Third Sector Resource who shares some of the lessons she has learned along the way.

January sees a number of events taking place in the UK and overseas and our Events listing gives you details of what's on and some un-missable Dates for your Diary .

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Keep up to date with events across Africa with constant breaking news from Africa through Thomson Reuters on the ReConnect Africa website. Catch up on news from the UK and around the world in bite sized chunks with our News Round feature.

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We visit the ReConnect Africa Library and we give you another chance to read Schooling Across Borders in which Funke Ogunshola talks about the challenges involved in sending your child to school in Africa and how her organisation is providing support with the process.

Finally, check out this month's Editorial - Africa's Rising. Really. – and let me know what you think.

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