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 exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist."[4] She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in The Times of West Africa; "Dama Dumas" in the African Morning Post; "Ebun Alakija" in the Nigerian Daily Times; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the Accra Evening News.[3] Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly.[5]
She created the awareness and the need for self-governance through her works.[6]
^"Heroes Of Our Time — Ms Mabel Ellen Dove", Graphic Online (via Modern Ghana), 13 April 2007. (Some sources mistakenly give her date of birth as 2010.)
^Asiedu, Kwasi Gyamfi (16 March 2019). "Africa has forgotten the women leaders of its independence struggle". Quartz Africa. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
^ abAudrey Gadzekpo, "Dove-Danquah, Mabel (1905–84, Ghanaian journalist, short-story writer", in Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (eds), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1994), 2nd edition, Routledge, 2005, pp. 371–72.
^Kofigah, Francis Elsbend, "The Writing of Mabel Dove Danquah" (thesis) Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 1996.
^Margaret Busby, "Mabel Dove-Danquah", in Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent (1992), 1993, p. 223.
^"7 women who played a role in Ghana's Independence struggle". Business Insider. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
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