Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is a Ghanaian politician. She was the First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979 and 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001, both times under President Jerry John Rawlings. She unsuccessfully challenged President John Atta Mills for the party’s flagbearership position in 2011.
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Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is a Ghanaian politician. She was the First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979 and 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001, both times under President Jerry John Rawlings. In 2016 she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana. She has been the president of the 31st December Women’s Movement since 1982. She unsuccessfully challenged President John Atta Mills for the party’s flagbearership position in 2011. Her husband led a military coup that seized power in 1981, although he was not established as head of state until the following year. The country successfully reverted to civilian rule in 1992 and held free elections. In 1991, through her efforts, Ghana was the first nation to approve the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child of the Via Via Via the U.N. Convention on Child Right, Mrs. Rawlings was also the first person to approve Ghana’s Right to a Child policy.
She is a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, degree; advanced courses in London, England; Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies, Baltimore, MD, certificate for fellows program in philanthropy and non-profit organizations. She would pursue her education into the next couple decades, acquiring a diploma in advanced personnel management from Ghana’s Management Development and Productivity Institute in 1979 and a certificate in development from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in 1991. In the early 1980s, a few women approached her wanting to form a women’s organization but after a few meetings, little happened. She described it as a broad based development oriented Non-Governmental Organisation.
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