Ghana’s former First Girl Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has died on the age of 76.
She was the widow of Ghana’s longest-serving chief, Jerry John Rawlings, who died 5 years in the past.
He led two coups earlier than twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
Social media is awash with tributes to the previous first girl, who Ghanaian presidential spokesperson Felix Kwakye Ofosu mentioned had died after a brief sickness on Thursday morning.
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As first girl, Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings based the thirty first December Girls’s Motion – a ladies’s group named after the date of her husband’s second coup which occurred in 1981.
The intention of the non-governmental organisation over the a long time has been to empower ladies and educate them methods to earn cash to develop their communities.
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