Brigitte Dzogbenuku is a

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politician and beauty queen who won

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1990. During 2020, she was the presidential candidate for the Progressive People's Party.

Education

Dzogbenuku had her secondary education at Wesley Girls High School in

Cape Coast Cape Coast is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of Ghana. It is one of the country's most historic cities, a World Heritage Site, home to the Cape Coast Castle, with the Gulf of Guinea ...

. She proceeded to the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages.

Career

Dzogbenuku is a columnist at the Graphic Communication Group Limited where she writes for ''

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'' under ''Manners Matter.'' She was formerly General Manager at the

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. She also worked with

Ashanti Goldfields Corporation The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. Dur ...

as well as SC Johnson Wax Ghana.

Awards and recognition

Dzogbenuku won the

beauty pageant in 1990. She also won the Fortune/Goldman Sachs Women's Leadership Award in 2008.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People educated at Wesley Girls' Senior High School University of Ghana alumni Progressive People's Party (Ghana) politicians 21st-century Ghanaian women politicians Candidates for President of Ghana {{Ghana-politician-stub