Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, born 17 November 1948, is a Ghanaian politician who 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.
In 2016, she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana. She attended Ghana International School. Later she moved to Achimota School, where she met Jerry John Rawlings.
She went on to study Art and textiles at the University of Science and Technology. She was a student leader of her Hall of residence, Africa Hall. In 1975, she earned an interior design diploma from the London College of Arts.
Nana Konadu married Rawlings in 1977. They had their first child, Zenator, in 1978. Rawlings was then an Airforce Officer. Two other daughters and a son followed later; Yaa Asantewaa, Amina, and Kimathi.
She would pursue her education into the next couple of 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.
As today, November 17 marks her 72 birthday, we celebrate this great woman in our political discourse though she lost her husband to a saddened death some few days ago.
Source: TheBBCghana.Com
