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Here are all the First Ladies of Ghana since independence
Jun 2, 2020
There are associations of First Ladies which meet occasionally to deliberate on matters of common concern.
First Ladies in Ghana play an important role in the affairs of the husband's presidency and Pulse.com.gh take a look at the First Ladies in Ghana since Ghana gained independence.
Helena Ritz Fathia Nkrumah
She was a Coptic Egyptian and the First Lady and the wife of the Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Fathia Nkrumah was born and brought up in Zeitoun. Fathia was raised by her mother after her husband's death.
After completing her secondary education, where she studied French. She worked as a teacher at her school in Zeitoun.
As teaching did not appeal to her, she took a job in a bank. Frederick, an American journalist, who published her book in 1967, said Nkrumah sent his friend, Alhaji Saleh Said Sinare, who was one of the first Ghanaian Muslims to study in Egypt, to find him a Christian wife from Egypt, and Fathia was one of the final five women chosen.
Helena Ritz Fathia Nkrumah
At that stage, Kwame Nkrumah proposed to marry her. Her mother was reluctant to see another of her children marry a foreigner and quit the country, as Fathia's brother had left Egypt with his English wife.
Fathia explained that Nkrumah was an anti-colonial hero, like Nasser, yet her mother refused to speak to her or bless the marriage.
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