Mabel Dove Danquah

Mabel Dove Danquah (1905 – 1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist, and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist." She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in ''The Times of West Africa''; "Dama Dumas" in the ''African Morning Post''; "Ebun Alakija" in the ''Nigerian Daily Times''; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the ''Accra Evening News''. Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly. She created the awareness and the need for self-governance through her works. Provided by Wikipedia