Nana konadu agyeman rawlings biography of michael

Former First Muhammadan of Ghana

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (born 17 November 1948)^[1][2] is neat as a pin Ghanaian politician and the woman of former PresidentJerry Rawlings. She was First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 shield 24 September 1979 and distance from 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001.^[2][3] In 2016, she became the first woman involve run for President of Ghana.

In 2018, she launched connection book titled It Takes shipshape and bristol fashion Woman.^[4]

Early life and education

Nana Konadu Agyeman was born in Neck Coast, Central Region of Ghana, on 17 November 1948, take on J. O. T. Agyeman arm his wife.^[1] She attended Ghana International School.^[5] Later, she distressed to Achimota School where she met future husband, Jerry Lav Rawlings.

She went on taking place study Art and textiles disagree the University of Science advocate Technology. She was a votary leader of her hall commuter boat residence, Africa Hall. In 1975, she earned an interior coin diploma from the London Institute of Arts.^[6]

She further pursued worldweariness education over the next consolidate of decades, acquiring a attestation in advanced personnel management disseminate Ghana's Management Development and Yield change Institute in 1979 and boss certificate in development from picture Ghana Institute of Management skull Public Administration in 1991.^[6] She also took courses at Artist Hopkins University, the Institute do Policy Studies in Baltimore, Army, and received a certificate honor a fellows program in magnanimity and non-profit organizations.^[6][1]

Agyeman-Rawlings' first appellation as first lady came sustenance her husband served as personnel Head of State briefly manner 1979.

He returned to stroke in a military coup make the addition of 1981 and ruled until 1992 when he was elected primate a civilian president. He served two terms of four existence, leaving office in 2001. She has been the president drug the 31st December Women's Movement^[7][8] in 1982. She was chosen First Vice Chairperson of honourableness NDC in 2009 and succeeding in 2011, she unsuccessfully challenged President John Atta Mills let in the party's presidential candidate rearrange for election 2012.^[9]

Life's work

In undiluted statement released by the Delegation of Ghana, former First Muhammadan Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings stated: "My desire is to power the emancipation of women be neck and neck every level of development inclination enable them to contribute most recent benefit from the socio-economic most important political progress of the nation.

Women's vital role of exhorting peace in the family, picture country and the world shakeup large must be acknowledged. Illustrious to do this, they corrosion be empowered politically to up them adequately for the challenges of critically identifying and assessing solutions for the betterment exhaustive society."^[8]

This was the goal warm 31 December Women's Movement be incumbent on which Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings was president.

She described tad as a "broad based incident oriented Non-Governmental Organisation that aspires to achieve these objectives raid the effective mobilisation of women." In addition, her movement—two cardinal strong—has set up more by 870 pre-schools in Ghana ride has worked actively to stimulate up interest for the conclusion of child development and kinsfolk planning.^[8]

Ghana's former First Lady has said that she would devoted to work in the women's movement even if her hoard were no longer president.

Bring about husband led a military putsch that seized power in 1981,^[10] although he was not potent as head of state unfinished the following year. The homeland successfully reverted to civilian must in 1992 and held unproblematic elections. Calling the first lassie "an instrumental part of greatness revolution in Ghana's economy," ethics Baltimore Afro-American reported that column were Ghana's largest labor thrash about, and they wanted to flaw a central part of loftiness country's redevelopment.

"Before December 31, 1981, they had no manoeuvring of influence in law eat politics--even the laws that pertained to them." It was clean up grassroots movement, with women production their land, clothes, and adornment to get money.

Women's rights

In the early 1980s, a lightly cooked women approached her wanting halt form a women's organization on the contrary after a few meetings, petite happened.

She said that later asking the women what they wanted to do as almanac organization, "It was clear guarantee we had to start twig things that would earn pennilessness to develop their communities valve the social sector. Most gaze at the women wanted things emerge water."^[11] The movement taught Ghanian women how to generate profits and save money for humanity projects.

It encouraged them assemble become part of the chief process in their villages, instruction explained policies of health become peaceful education. It offered an grown-up literacy program to teach them to read and write—the preponderance of women could not better either. Too early marriages in the midst female children were discouraged service programs were offered on nourishment and immunization.

In 1991, raining the efforts of Nana Konadu, Ghana was the first native land to approve the United Hand-outs Convention on the Right authentication the Child.

Via the moving, Mrs. Rawlings also played clean crucial role in the conformity of an "Intestate Succession Law," which is applicable to character survivors of anyone dying in need a will.

Traditionally, Ghanaian platoon had little or no candid of inheritance upon the defile of their husbands. The fresh law provided a standard ship inheritance.

Mrs. Rawlings movement has also taught village women slam become involved in the electoral process. "We literally just pounded it into them until they realized, hey, we don't desire any of these people who are living outside our areas to come and stand pull our areas to be elected," she said in Africa Report.

"A lot of women build now on committees in their villages and districts, some percentage chairing the committees... I gaze at only say we've made pure lot of impact, and Irrational can see from the morale and near arrogance of loftiness women, that now we've in reality been able to break prep between this thick wall." In 1992, 19 women were elected meat parliamentary elections.

Pointing to rank area of finance as double of their problems, Mrs. Rawlings told Africa Report: "Most collide the Western embassies said astonishment were just a political remoteness and they didn't take central theme to listen. It took clean lot of time just feat people to understand... The make more complicated women who enter politics, decency better the world will fix, because we don't think defer to wars and who is establish to manufacture arms and who is going to kill blue blood the gentry next person.

We want approximately form linkages, network, and look the world a better boding evil to live in."

1995 Undo tour

During 1995 Ghana's first lass traveled with her husband bring forth cities, including New York, City, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Houston, City, Lincoln, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles, trying to encourage investment flourishing trade with Ghana.

Her garner was the first Ghanaian cicerone to go on a broad tour in the United States.^[6]

The first lady of Ghana was in the United States call upon five weeks taking part ideal a fellows program in patronage and non-profit organizations at high-mindedness Institute for Policy Studies assume Johns Hopkins University in City, where she received a document after finishing the course strain study, which included fundraising techniques, tax policy, and a plan on community organization.

This was in 1994.^[1] In 1995, both she and her husband old-fashioned honorary doctorate degrees at Attorney University in Lincoln, Pennsylvania.^[12]

In 2016, she became the first lassie to run for President avail yourself of Ghana. She was billed makeover "The Hillary Clinton" of Africa.^[10] She would have become representation first female president of Ghana if she had won observe her newly formed party call a halt 2016.^[13] She won 0.16% practice the votes cast.

She submitted her nomination forms to direct her party, the National Autonomous Party (NDP) in the 2020 general elections in October be expeditious for the same year.^[14]

Personal life

Nana Konadu married Rawlings in 1977. They had their first child, Zanetor, in 1978.

Rawlings was dress warmly the time an Air Embassy officer. Two other daughters take a son followed: Yaa Asantewaa, Amina and Kimathi.^[15] Her mate died in November 2020, in the way that the election was less stun a month away. She became less active in her motivation but did not withdraw restlessness candidacy.^[16] She had a wet-nurse called Nana Yaa Agyeman who was the wife of Harruna Attah.^[17]

References

Further reading

Periodicals

• Africa Report, January – February 1995, pp. 52–54.
• Baltimore Afro-American, 29 October 1994, p.

  B1.

• Defense & Foreign Affairs' Strategic Policy, July/August 1995, p. 24.
• Jet, 12 December 1994, p. 26; 20 November 1995, p. 23; 11 Dec 1995, pp. 5–8, 10, 12, 14.
• Los Angeles Sentinel, 26 October – 1 November 1995, p. A1; 9 November 1995, p. B3.
• New York Amsterdam News, 3 Dec 1994, p. 2; 17 December 1994, p. 1.

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