Mabel Dove Danquah
Mabel Dove Danquah (* 1905 in Accra ; † 1984 ) was a Ghanaian journalist , politician and writer .
Life
Her father Frances Dove came from Freetown ( Liberia ), her mother Eva Buckman from Osu (Ghana) . The parents sent their children to school in Freetown. Mabel Danquah trained as a secretary. In addition to her work in this profession, she wrote articles for the "Times of West Africa". She published a women's column under the pseudonym Marjorie Mensah . The editor of this newspaper was the well-known politician Joseph Boakye Danquah , whom Mabel married in 1933. In 1940 the marriage ended in divorce.
The Times of West Africa was discontinued and Dove Danquah wrote for the Accra Evening News, which she became editor in 1951. In 1954 she was a candidate of the CPP, the Nkrumah's party, for the Ga Rural Electoral District. That year she was elected to the Ghanaian parliament as the first woman. Mabel Dove Danquah was a pioneer in several ways: She was one of the first female journalists and one of the first female authors in Ghana.
She died in 1984.
Mabel Dove Danquah was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.
Works
- The Torn Veil and Other Stories , London: Evans Bros., 1975.
- Anticipation . Short story
literature
- Kathleen Sheldon : women in Sub-Saharan Africa, Lanham, Maryland, 2005, pp. 64–65
- Francis Elsbend Kofigah: The Writings of Mabel Dove Danquah, Master Thesis, Kumasi 1996
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dove Danquah, Mabel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mensah, Marjorie (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian journalist, politician and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Accra , Ghana |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |