Regina Asamany Explained

Regina Asamany
Constituency Mp1:Kpando
Parliament1:Ghana
Predecessor1:New
Successor1:Constituency abolished
Term Start1:1965
Term End1:1966
Constituency Mp2:Member for the Volta Region
Parliament2:Ghana
Term Start2:1960
Term End2:1965
Birth Date:30 July 1927
Birth Name:Regina Catherine Ama Asamany[1]
Party:Convention People's Party

Regina Asamany (born 30 July 1927) was a Ghanaian politician who hailed from Kpando, a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. She is widely recognised as one of the women whose efforts helped Ghana attain independence.[2] She was the daughter of an ivory carver and the only woman to make it into the first rank of the Togoland Congress leadership in the 1950s.[3] She was a member of parliament representing the Volta Region from 1960 to 1965 and the member of parliament for Kpando from 1965 to 1966.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Biography

Asamany was born on 30 July 1927 at Kpando in the Volta Region.[11] She had her early education at Kpando Presbyterian School from 1935 to 1940 and later moved to Kumasi Government Girls' School from 1941 to 1944.

Asamany was among the first women to enter the parliament of Ghana in 1960 under the representation of the people (women members) act. She was among the 10 women who were elected unopposed on 27 June 1960 on the Convention People's Party ticket.[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] While in parliament, she served as the deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare from 1961 to 1963.[17] [18] [19] [20] Prior to entering parliament, she worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare as mass education assistant.[3] [21]

She was an Executive Member of National Council of Ghana Women, Trustee of the Kwame Nkrumah Trust Fund and the Chairman of the Visiting Committee of Borstal Institutes.[22]

In 1979, she founded the Mother Ghana Solidarity Party with the intention to contest for presidency in the 1979 general elections but was unable to contest as she missed the registration deadline by a few minutes because the cheque for the registration fee had delayed.[23]

See also

Notes and References

  1. White paper on the Second report of the Jiagge Commission of Enquiry into the Assests of Specified Persons . 1 . Ministry of Information . 1969.
  2. Web site: Political Participation & Leadership (GHANA: Ghana Women's Summit Held in Accra) . Make Every Woman Count . 16 December 2019.
  3. Book: Skinner . K. A. C. . Skinner . Kate . 17 June 2015 . The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 . Cambridge University Press . 77. 9781107074637 .
  4. Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 1 . iii . Ghana National Assembly . 1960 . Parliamentary Debates.
  5. Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 1 . xvi . Ghana National Assembly . 1961 . Parliamentary Debates.
  6. Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 1 . xiv . Ghana National Assembly . 1962 . Parliamentary Debates.
  7. Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 1 . iii . Ghana National Assembly . 1963 . Parliamentary Debates.
  8. Ghana Year Book 1961 . 13 . Daily Graphic . 1961 . Ghana Year Book.
  9. Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 2 . iii and 8 . Ghana National Assembly . 1965 . Parliamentary Debates.
  10. Ghana Year Book 1966 . Daily Graphic . 22 . 1966 . Ghana Year Book.
  11. Ghana Year Book 1964 . 76 . Daily Graphic . 1964 . Ghana Year Book.
  12. Web site: Ghana Today, Volumes 3–4 . Information Section, Ghana Office . 10 . 1959.
  13. Web site: Ghana Gazette . National government publication . 19 . 1960.
  14. Web site: Women who made history are role models . Graphic Online . 16 December 2019.
  15. Web site: How Nkrumah Empowered Ghanaian Women . 18 September 2009 . Modern Ghana . 16 December 2019.
  16. Web site: Gender Ministry pays tribute to Ghanaian women . 9 March 2014 . Ghana Web . 16 December 2019.
  17. Web site: Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership . Guide to Women Leaders . 16 December 2019.
  18. Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 197–198 . United States. Central Intelligence Agency . I-7 . 1964.
  19. Book: Mensa-Bonsu, Henrietta . Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu

    . Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu . Ghana Law Since Independence: History, Development, and Prospects: Collection of Essays to Commemorate the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of Ghana's Independence, 6th March, 1957–6th March, 2007 . 2007 . Black Mask for Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon . 978-9988838515 . 261.

  20. Ghana Year Book 1963 . Graphic Corporation . 19 . 1963 . Ghana Year Book.
  21. Annual Report of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development . Ghana. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development. . Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Accra. 1959 . Annual Report of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development.
  22. Ghana Year Book 1964 . 76 . Daily Graphic . 1964 . Ghana Year Book.
  23. Ghana News, Volumes 8–12 . Washington, D.C. : Embassy of Ghana . 1979 . 4 . Ghana News.

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