Biography of mabel dove-danquah ghana

Mabel Dove Danquah ( – ) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist, and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work.!

Mabel Dove Danquah was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist, and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields.

Mabel Dove Danquah – was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in.

Mabel Dove Danquah ( – ) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist, and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work.

She was a CPP candidate for Ga Rural constituency in and her win made her the first female member of the legislative assembly of the gold coast.

Mabel Dove Danquah, widely recognised as one of the first female journalists in the country and an influential advocate for women's rights and social justice.

Mabel Dove Danquah

Ghanaian journalist, politician and writer (1905–1984

Mabel Dove Danquah
Born	Mabel Ellen Dove 1905 (1905) Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Died	1984 (aged 78–79)
Nationality	Ghanaian
Other names	Marjorie Mensah; Dama Dumas; Ebun Alakija; Akosua Dzatsui
Occupation(s)	Journalist, politician and writer
Notable work	The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw (1934); Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist (2004)
Spouse(s)	J. B. Danquah (m, 1933; div. mid-1940s)
Relatives	Francis "Frans" Dove (father) Evelyn Dove (sister) Frank Dove (brother)

Mabel Dove Danquah (1905^[1] – 1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist,^[2] and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields.^[3] As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong expone