Adeline Akufo-Addo

Adeline Akufo-Addo
First Lady of Ghana
In role
31 August 1970 – 13 January 1972
President Edward Akufo-Addo
Personal details
Born Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta
Died 21 March 2004(2004-03-21) (aged 86)
Spouse(s) Edward Akufo-Addo
Alma mater Achimota School[1]

Adeline Sylvia Eugeina 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 politician 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][3]

Her elder sister was Susan Ofori-Atta, the first female doctor from the Gold Coast.[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Elegbede, Wale (24 April 2018). "Depleting rank of ex-first ladies, first mothers". New Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Nana Addo remembers mother". Ghana Web. 24 March 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "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. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017.
  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.
  8. ↑ Nana Kwame Asamoa-Boateng, "Otumfuo Storms Ofori Panie Fie", Daily Guide, 9 August 2018.
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