| Birth Name: | Ewura Ekua Badoe |
| Birth Date: | 24 October 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Education: | Saint Monica's Convent; Mmofraturo School; A. M. E. Zion School; Wesley Girls' High School |
| Alma Mater: | Queen Elizabeth College University of Ghana, Legon |
| Occupation: | Journalist, editor and consultant on women and development |
| Known For: | Founder of Ghana's first women's magazine |
Kate Victoria Teiba Abbam, born Ewura Ekua Badoe (24 October 1934 – May 2016) was a Ghanaian journalist, editor and consultant on women and development.[1] [2] Abbam founded Ghana's first women's magazine, Obaa Sima ("The Ideal Woman"), in 1971.[3]
Awura Ekuwa Badoe was born on 24 October 1934 in Cape Coast.[4] She was given a Christian education, and renamed Kate Victoria,[5] at Saint Monica's Convent, Cape Coast, Mmofraturo School in Kumasi, the A. M. E. Zion School in Cape Coast and Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast. She won a Ghana government scholarship to read for a degree in Home Science at Queen Elizabeth College in London.[6] She then studied General Science at University of Ghana, Legon.[2] She married Emmanuel Atta Abbam in 1964.[7] From 1964 to 1969 she worked at the Food Research Institute, analysing food and food products.[2]
Kate Abbam founded Obaa Sima as a monthly magazine in 1971. The name, she later explained in an interview, referred to "a woman who is industrious and helps her community... women are called ' obaa sima ' when they have made it through their own efforts – it is the embodiment of the traditional woman".[3] Abbam was owner, editor and principal contributor to the magazine. Her novelette Beloved Twin, for example, was serialized there in 1971–2.[8]
In July 1972, Abbam's husband died, leaving her with small children. She wrote about her treatment as a widow, summarily dispossessed by her husband's family, in Obaa Sima.[5] In 1975 she was awarded a United Nations fellowship to attend the World Conference on Women in Mexico City, reviewing the place of Ghanaian women in the mass media.[9] In 1993, she was enstooled Queenmother of the Anona clan in the Ekumfi Eyisam in the Central Region, making her Nana Assanwa Ewudziwa Gyampaafor II.[2]
She died in May 2016. Her niece is the writer Adwoa Badoe.