As the month celebrating women is drawing to close catch the interview with Frances Mensah Williams CBE, our IWD 2020 “Woman to Celebrate. ”
Frances Mensah Williams CBE is a multi-published author, the Managing Editor of ReConnect Africa, an online career and business portal for global professionals of African origin. She is also founder and CEO of Interims for Development, a UK-based organisation that has undertaken multiple skills and business development projects in the UK and Africa since 2003. A recent recipient of CBE in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to Africans in the UK and in Africa.
Frances’s first book was ‘Everyday Heroes: Learning from the Careers of Successful Black Professionals’ and was followed by the careers guide ‘I Want to Work in Africa: How to Move Your Career to the World’s Most Exciting Continent’.
In 2015 Frances’s acclaimed first novel ‘From Pasta to Pigfoot’ was published by Jacaranda Books and selected by WH Smith Travel as one of the top 25 of its 100 Summer reads. Described by the novelist Lesley Lokko as ‘a warm and poignant coming-of-culture’ novel, it features under-achieving PA and pasta fanatic Faye Bonsu and chronicles her attempts to find her cultural niche as she explores contemporary Ghana. The sequel ‘From Pasta to Pigfoot: Second Helpings’ continues Faye’s adventures of self-discovery and self-acceptance. Her latest book is Imperfect Arrangements, As Frances states “I wanted to celebrate the importance of sister-friends and depict an honest account of the complexity of relationships, both romantic and between best friends. I also wanted to explore the joy and pain of relationships, particularly with the added pressures of cultural expectations and norms, and to tell the story from the perspectives of both the women and the men in their lives.”
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