Regina Asamany (born 30 July 1927) was a Ghanaian politician who hailed from

Kpando Kpando is a town and capital of Kpando Municipal District in the northern Volta Region of Ghana. It is near the north eastern arm of Lake Volta and the Togo border. Kpando is the fifty-fourth most populous place in Ghana, in terms of population, ...

, a town in the

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. She is widely recognised as one of the women whose efforts helped Ghana attain independence. She was the daughter of an ivory carver and the only woman to make it into the first rank of the Togoland Congress leadership in the 1950s. She was a member of parliament representing the Volta Region from 1960 to 1965 and the member of parliament for

from 1965 to 1966.

Biography

Asamany was born on 30 July 1927 at

in the

. She had her early education at Kpando Presbyterian School from 1935 to 1940 and later moved to

Kumasi Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie, usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in the Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the ...

Government Girls' School from 1941 to 1944. Asamany was among the first women to enter the parliament of Ghana in 1960 under the representation of the people (women members) act. She was among the 10 women who were elected unopposed on 27 June 1960 on the

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ticket. While in parliament, she served as the deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare from 1961 to 1963. Prior to entering parliament, she worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare as mass education assistant. She was an Executive Member of National Council of Ghana Women, Trustee of the Kwame Nkrumah Trust Fund and the Chairman of the Visiting Committee of

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Institutes. In 1979, she founded the Mother Ghana Solidarity Party with the intention to contest for presidency in the 1979 general elections but was unable to contest as she missed the registration deadline by a few minutes because the cheque for the registration fee had delayed.

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1927 births Possibly living people Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965 Ghanaian MPs 1965–1966 Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians 20th-century Ghanaian women politicians {{Ghana-politician-stub

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