Adeline Akufo-Addo
First Lady of Ghana
In role
31 August 1970 – 13 January 1972
PresidentEdward Akufo-Addo
Personal details
Born
Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta

(1917-12-17)17 December 1917
Died21 March 2004(2004-03-21) (aged 86)
SpouseEdward Akufo-Addo
Children4, including Nana Akufo-Addo
Parents
Relatives
Alma materAchimota School[1]

Adeline Sylvia Eugenia Ama Yeboakua Akufo-Addo (née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta; 17 December 1917 – 21 March 2004) was a First Lady in the second republic of Ghana as the wife of Edward Akufo-Addo and mother of Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo.

She died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on 21 March 2004, aged 86.[2]

Personal life

Born to Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, Omanhene of Akyem Abuakwa, and Agnes Akosua Dodua of Abomosu,[2] she was the Abontendomhene (the queen mother of the royal house of Ofori Panin Fie of Kyebi). As such, she was officially styled as Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta.[3][4]

Her elder sister was Susan Ofori-Atta, the first female doctor from the Gold Coast.[5][6][7][8] Adeline Akufo-Addo's older brother was William Ofori-Atta, the Gold Coast politician and lawyer, former foreign minister and one of the founding leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) as well as a member of "The Big Six", the group of political activists detained by the British colonial government after the 1948 Accra riots, kicking off the struggle for the attainment of Ghana's independence in 1957. Her other brother was Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, a Minister for Local Government in the Convention People's Party (CPP) government of Kwame Nkrumah and later Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.[9]

References

  1. ^ Elegbede, Wale (24 April 2018). "Depleting rank of ex-first ladies, first mothers". New Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Nana Addo remembers mother". Ghana Web. 24 March 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  3. ^ "Former First Lady Adeline Akufo-Addo laid to rest". Ghana Web. 15 May 2004. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. ^ Harold B. Martinson (2001). Ghana: The Dream of the 21st Century: Politics of J.B. Danquah, Busia and Kufuor Tradition. Norcento Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-9988-7767-6-3.
  5. ^ Adell Patton (1996). Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. University Press of Florida. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-8130-1432-6.
  6. ^ Richard Rathbone (1993). Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana. Yale University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-300-05504-7. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017.
  7. ^ Tetty, Charles (1985). "Medical Practitioners of African Descent in Colonial Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 18 (1): 139–144. doi:10.2307/217977. JSTOR 217977. PMID 11617203. S2CID 7298703.
  8. ^ Nana Kwame Asamoa-Boateng, "Otumfuo Storms Ofori Panie Fie"[usurped], Daily Guide, 9 August 2018.
  9. ^ Nana Kwame Asamoa-Boateng, "Otumfuo Storms Ofori Panie Fie"[usurped] , Daily Guide, 9 August 2018.
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