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IWD: Nana Konadu has not been celebrated enough, say panellists

The panellists were contributing to a discussion on this year's celebration of the International Women's Day on the theme " 'Investing in women: Accelerate progress."

Panellists on the Asaase Breakfast Show have praised the invaluable role played by former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings in championing women’s empowerment adding that she has not been celebrated enough.

They were contributing to a discussion on this year’s celebration of the International Women’s Day on the theme ” ‘Investing in women: Accelerate progress.”.

“I always say in small conversation that Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is not celebrated enough, her words are now resonating with us. What she said about the emancipation of women at all levels is now making a lot of sense,” Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, executive director of Agrihouse Foundation told the Asaase Breakfast Show on Friday (8 March).

Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa;

“And we are glad that she made that call, but what is limiting us? I think for me it is ourselves, we at the frontline now when it comes to movements and the men agree that we bring something to the table,” she told the moderator Yawa Hansen-Quao.

On her part, Juliana Ama Kplorfia, the founder of the Girls Excellence Movement recounted how a campaign song to send girls to school initiated by the former First Lady, Nana Agyeman Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings contributed to her educational success in life.

” … Nana Konadu days gave me a chance to education, I had completed JHS at the time and there was no money to further my education.

Juliana Ama Kplorfia

“And then Nana Konadu had returned from one of her trips and I think it was International Women’s Day and they started this campaign called ‘Send your Girl Child to School’ and I will rattle the song anytime my dad had a visitor.”

“I will sing it so loud for them to hear me, and through that process, I was able to get somebody who made me come to live with the daughter who had given birth in the city as a house help for four years and subsequently went to SHS and look at me today,” Kplorfia said.

Listen to Alberta and Juliana in the attached audio clip below:

 

Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra

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