Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (17 November 1948 – 23 October 2025) was a Ghanaian politician. She was the wife of President Jerry Rawlings. She was First Lady of Ghana from 4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979 and from 31 December 1981 to 7 January 2001. In 2016, she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana. She ran in 2016 and in 2020, losing both elections to Nana Akufo-Addo.

In 2018, she work her book titled It Takes a Woman.

Agyeman-Rawlings died on 23 October 2025 at a hospital in Accra, Ghana after a short-illness at the age of 76.

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