Ama Nkrumah Explained

Ama Nkrumah
Birth Name:	Ama Nkrumah
Nationality:	Ghanaian

Ama Nkrumah was a Ghanaian female political activist during and after Ghana's independence struggle.^{[1] [2]}

Politics

Ama Nkrumah was one of the female political activists who was with Ghana's first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah through the independence struggle and later served in various political capacities.^[3]

In popular culture

Ama Nkrumah is the eponymous subject of the opening poem in Woman, Eat Me Whole, Ghanaian author and spoken-word artist Ama Asantewa Diaka's first poetry collection.^[4]

See also

• Sophia Oboshie Doku
• Hannah Cudjoe
• Susanna Al-Hassan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Column: Women and the movement for African unity & socialism – Today Newspaper. www.todaygh.com. 2016-01-24. 2017-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20171216091838/http://www.todaygh.com/column-women-and-the-movement-for-african-unity-socialism/. dead.
2. Web site: National Commission On Culture. www.ghanaculture.gov.gh. 2016-01-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20171216092514/http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=65&archiveid=1984&page=1&adate=25%2F02%2F2011. 2017-12-16. dead.
3. Web site: Women at forefront of Africa’s liberation struggles. www.workers.org. 2017-02-08.
4. Book: Diaka, Ama Asantewa. Woman, Eat Me Whole. Ecco. 2022. New York. 87. en. 9780063092914.