Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings – The First Female Presidential Candidate of Ghana.
The Asante Woman of Heroism and Fortitude we are celebrating tonight. She is courageous, aesthetic, an intelligentsia, a woman of dignity with a lucent demeanor.
• She is Ghana’s first former First Lady in the 4th Republic, under the regime of the late Ex-President Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings.
• She is the Founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
• Former Vice Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2009.
• She is the president of the 31st December Women Movement from 1982 till date, a non-governmental organization that aspires to empower women.
Asante Dehyeɛ from Mpobi near Ejuratia and Antoa, born to Mr. and Mrs. Agyeman. She grew up in a family where education was their biggest priority when other people were not patronizing education that much.
Her mother and Grand Aunt, Ohemaa Konadu Yiadom who she was named after are her biggest source of inspiration. She took education as a primary concern in her own life, taken after the lead of her parents.
She had her secondary education at Achimota School, where her love journey begun with the late Ex-president, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, Paapa J.
She then proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to read an Arts Degree in Textile.
In KNUST, she was elected as the General Secretary of Africa Hall in 1969.
She then again served as a member of the KNUST SRC with the late P.V Obeng, Former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, and was again elected as Assistant Secretary in 1971 to serve under KNUST SRC.
HER IMPACT IN GHANA’S POLITICS AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT.
She mobilized more than two million women across the globe from small scale and village level to stand for parliamentary elections. She fought and still fighting for gender equality.
She has been named as Africa’s most Socially Progressive and Influential Female Politician, and she is the recipient of the Honorary of Doctorate Degree from the Lincoln University in the United States of America.
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was the brain behind By the Fire Side Concept, one of favourite childhood TV series.
ln the olden days when a spouse dies without a will, the family members treat the widow or the widower badly and sadly takes away the property belonging to the widow away. But due to the crucial role Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings played in the Interstate Succession Law, today even when a spouse dies without a will, the family members can’t take that inheritance from the widow. Today all will litigations have gone down successfully.
She is a heroe and a mentor, the living evidence of the skies never the limit irrespective of ones gender. From 1969 till date she has proved her worth. She has set a standard for every woman across Ghana to emulate.
A woman who believes that the women are the neck and it is the neck that controls the movement of the head, thus the man, should tell you the caliber of woman she is.
Aniadensuako, na wadi nkunim, te sɛ yɛn Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings will be 76 this year.
God bless the Asante Kingdom for producing such an icon.
