Angela has taught and practiced as a clinical psychologist at the University of Ghana Medical Center where she was a commonwealth scholar for six years. Between 1994 and 1998, she was part of a team that set up mental health services in the most deprived region of Ghana; the Upper West Region. She also set up and ran two volunteer organizations: Youthwatch for AIDS which taught 10,000 pupils about HIV/AIDS from an empowerment and psychological perspective, while the volunteer project renovated the children’s ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital and brought young volunteers from Holland and Ghana to stimulate the patients on the ward.