The former First Lady Nana
Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings marks her 72nd birthday today.
Unfortunately, her 72nd anniversary has come at a
difficult time amidst the pre-burial activities of her late husband.
Born on November 17, 1948, her birthday occurs barely
a week after the death of her husband, Jerry John Rawlings.
The former ex-president passed
away at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Thursday, November 12 after a short
illness.
Mrs Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings served by his side
as the First Lady of Ghana for close to two decades.
A strong women’s rights advocate, she founded the
31st December Women’s Movement in 1982 to emancipate women at every level of
development to enable them to contribute and benefit from the socio-economic
and political progress of the country.
In 2016 she became the first woman to run for President of
Ghana. She was billed as “The Hillary Clinton” of Africa. She would have become
the first female president of Ghana if she had won with her newly formed party
in 2016.
This year, she will contest in
Ghana’s presidential election in December 2020 December polls as the flagbearer
of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
This will be the third time, the former First Lady
has been chosen by the party as its flagbearer.
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