22 Facts About Hannah Kudjoe

Hannah Esi Badu Kudjoe was a prominent activist for Ghanaian independence in the 1940s and 1950s.

Hannah Kudjoe was one of the first high-profile female nationalists in the movement, and was the National Propaganda Secretary for the Convention People's Party.

Hannah Kudjoe was a political activist during the government of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

Hannah Kudjoe was an active philanthropist and worked to improve women's lives in Northern Ghana.

Hannah Kudjoe was able to convince others to support and fight for independence.

Hannah Kudjoe helped Kwame Nkrumah in bringing people to join the CPP and support it.

Hannah Kudjoe once helped the Big Six when they were arrested by bringing people together to call for their release by the colonial government.

Hannah Kudjoe was one of the privileged few girls that went to school in an era where few girls went to school.

Hannah Kudjoe started her elementary education at Busua Methodist School and completed at Sekondi Methodist School.

Hannah Kudjoe was a manager of Abontiako gold mines near Tarkwa.

Hannah Kudjoe described how she met Dr Kwame Nkrumah and inspired her entry into politics at an International Women's Day symposium at the Accra Community Centre on 8 March 1986:.

Hannah Kudjoe was a founding member of the Committee of Youth Organization within the UGCC and was one of the seven signatories who endorsed an April 1949 document that threatened a full split away from the UGCC if Kwame Nkrumah wasn't reinstated as the parties general secretary.

Hannah Kudjoe was the only woman present when the decision to split was made.

Hannah Kudjoe was an active participant of the Positive Action, a campaign of mass civil disobedience coupled with political protests that eventually led to the end of colonial rule, Nkrumah's election victory and the formation of an independent nation.

Hannah Kudjoe inspired massive support for the CPP through this campaign.

Hannah Kudjoe rose to become the organizer and the National Propaganda Secretary of the CPP.

Hannah Kudjoe was an extremely effective organizer, mobilizing many people, including women, to join the CPP.

Whilst working in her official roles with the CPP in the 1950s and 1960s, Hannah Kudjoe was undertaking social welfare works within the Northern regions of Ghana teaching both young women and adults basic life skills in hygiene, home keeping, dressing and how to raise children.

Hannah Kudjoe taught women hygiene practices, such as how to boil water to bathe children.

Hannah Kudjoe undertook this work largely independently of the new government, leading to disapproval from the government, who minimized her role.

Hannah Kudjoe helped distribute food in times of famine, and encouraged women to farm to grow their own food.

Hannah Kudjoe continued with her philanthropic works in the north through the 1970' and 1980's till she died in 1986.