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Mabel Dove Danquah
Mabel Dove Danquah (1905〔("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.)〕–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields.〔Audrey 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.〕 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."〔Kofigah, Francis Elsbend, ("The Writing of Mabel Dove Danquah" (thesis) ), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 1996.〕 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''.〔 Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly.〔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.〕
==Education and early years==
Mabel Ellen Dove was born in Accra to Eva Buckman of Osu and Francis (Frans) Dove, a lawyer from Sierra Leone who was the first President of the Gold Coast Bar.〔 With her sisters, Mabel at the age of six was taken to school in Freetown, Sierra Leone,〔LaRay Denzer, ("Gender & Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life" ), in Andrea Cornwall, ''Readings in Gender in Africa'', International African Institute in association with James Currey/Indiana University Press, 2005, p. 217.〕 and received further education in England, where she took a secretarial course, against the wishes of her father.〔Kathleen Sheldon, ("Dove Danquah, Mabel (1905/1910–1984)" ), ''Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa'', Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 66.〕 She was sent back to Freetown, and while there she helped set up a women's cricket club, participated in the local dramatics society and read extensively, before returning at the age of 21 to the Gold Coast.〔Denzer, ("Gender & Decolonization" ) (2005), p. 218.〕 She found employment as a shorthand-typist with Elder Dempster for eight years, then transferred to G. B. Olivant, before going to work as a manager with the trading company of A. G. Leventis.〔
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