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This is a list of women who have been elected as member of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. [1] [2] [3] [4] Within the 8th parliament, the ...
Rita Naa Odoley Sowah (born 2 July 1968) is a Ghanaian politician. She is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). [1] [2] [3] She is the first female member of parliament for the La Dade Kotopon Constituency.
He has been an MP in all the parliaments except the third between 2001 and 2005 when he lost his seat in the 2000 Ghanaian general election. [11] Following the appointment of Cassiel Ato Forson, MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam as Finance Minister, the role of Majority Leader in parliament was taken over by Mahama Ayariga, MP for Bawku Central.
Today, she is a member of the Convention People's Party council of elders and the only woman among the ten women in Ghana's first parliament alive. [11] [12] [13] She is the cousin of jurist and former Supreme Court judge; Patrick Dankwa Anin, and economist and former chief executive officer of the Ghana Commercial Bank; T. E. Anin. [14]
Appiagyei was born on 28 November 1956 in Kumasi and hails from Konongo/Asawase-Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. [6] [8] She had her secondary education at the St Louis Senior Secondary in Kumasi and proceeded to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied BA Social Science Economics/Law in 1980.She further did her Post graduate diploma- Development Economics ...
She was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya in 2012. She was re-elected in the 2016 and 2020 elections. She was Deputy Majority Leader of the 7th Parliament of the Republic of Ghana and is the only female MP in Ghana to ascend to the number 2 position of the Majority front.
Susanna Al-Hassan or Susan Alhassan (27 November 1927 – 17 January 1997) was a Ghanaian author and politician, who in 1961 became Ghana's first female to be appointed minister. [1] She was the first African woman to hold a cabinet portfolio [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and became the member of parliament for the then Northern Region parliamentary constituency ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Africa and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.