Mabel Dove Danquah

**Dove Danquah** (1905  – 1984) yɛ Gold Coast- basia a wɔwoo no Nsɛnkyerwnyi, amanyɛ ho dawur bɔ nyi nna obia ɔkyerɛw.Ɔka mbasiafo a wodzi kan yɛ dɛm edwuma wɔ ebibirimu atɔyɛ. Dɛ mbrɛ Francis Elsbend Kofigah   ka no wɔ no nkitahodzi wɔ Ghana nkyerɛwomu, Ansaa mbasiafo nkyerɛw be nyin akɔsor dɛ  Efua Sutherland na Ama Ata Aidoo, nna Mabel Dove Danquah, dze mbɛbusɛm kyerɛw nkrataa fitsi 1930 mu.  Marjorie Mensah" wɔ Mber wɔ ebeibir atɔyɛ; "Dama Dumas", in the *African Morning Post*; "Ebun Alakija" in the *Nigerian Daily Times*; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the *Accra Evening News*. Orua Amaneɔsɛm mu wɔ 1950 mu no ansaana Ghana Fahodzida no,Ɔbɛyɛɛ basia a odzikan a woyin dɛ ɔmmbɛka ebibirmu mbrayɛfo ho . ɔbɔɔ dawur na kyerɛ  mbrɛ hɛn  amanbu tse wɔ nedwuma yɛ mu.

## Nwomasua na n'abrabɔ ahyɛse
Wɔwoo Mabel Ellen Dove was born wɔ Nkran(Accra) na ne maame yɛ Eva Buckman, a odzi dwuma dɛ eguadzifo wɔ  in Osu, na n'egya yɛ (Francis) Frans Dove (1869–1949),  a odzi dwuma dɛ mbrahyɛnyi a ofri  Sierra Leone na nna ɔyɛ  Gold Coast Bar hɔn kuw no mu panyin a odzi kan. Ono na ne nuanom mbasiafo, Mabel wɔ aber a odzii mfe nsia no wonye no kɔɔr Annie Walsh Memorial School wɔ Freetown, Sierra Leone.  Wɔ aber na ɔwɔ sukuu wɔ Freetown no, ɔhyɛ agordzifo dwuma ase a ɔyɛ cricket club. Mabel nyaa no ntoado sukuu dwumadzi wɔ England wɔ Anglican Convent wɔ Bury St. Edmunds na St. Michael's College, Hurstpierpoint, na onyaa nwomasua mu nyimdzee wɔ edwumakuw no mu akyerɛwkyerɛw no ho edwuma (secretarial course), a otsia dzaa na n'egya rehwehwɛ. Wɔ sanso  nye ne ba Freetown, na wɔ aber a ɔwɔ hɔ no oboa na wɔtsew cricket agordzi dwumadzi kuw ma mbasiafo (women's cricket club), ɔdze ne ho hyɛɛ kuw nketsenketse a wɔyɛ sini ho dwumadzi(local dramatics society) na onyaa nyimdzee a no mu dɔ yie wɔ akenkan mu, ansaana oresan akɔ Gold Coast wɔ aber na w'edzi mfe 21. Onyaa edwuma dɛ obi odzi akyerɛw ntsiantsia dzi dwuma (shorthand-typist) ono na Elder Dempster dze kɔɔ mfe awɔtwe mu, woyii no kɔɔ G. B. Olivant, ansaana orekɔyɛ edwuma dɛ edwuma mu panyin wɔ eguadzi edwumakuw a wonye A. G. Leventis yɛ edwuma . 

## Dawurbɔ dwumadzi
Ɔhyɛse dɛ orekyerɛw ma *The Times of West Africa*, dawurbɔ nkrataa dwumadzi odzikan wɔ Ghana, na nyimpa a dze dɛm edwumakuw no bae na ɔyɛ ne dze no yɛ Dr J. B. Danquah na wɔbɔɔ mbɔdzen kasaa fa nyimpadɔm hɔn fahodzi ho nsɛm ho wɔ aber a na worekotsia abrofo hɔn nhyɛdo ne dwumadzi ho.Wɔ nhyehyɛe bea a wɔfrɛ no "Ladies Corner [ekyir no ɔbɛyɛɛ Women's] a na Marjorie Mensah na odzi no ho dwuma" (1931–34), ne nkrataa no ho akyerɛw nsɛm no gyee dzin yie:"Ɔhyɛɛ mbasiafo dɛ hom ngyina hɔn nan do pinstin, ama w'enya nkuranhyɛ efi nkorɔfo a woboa ma wobuei abatow no ho dwumadzi mu na wɔdze mbasiafo ka hɔn dwumadzi no hɔn ho, ama w'ako etsia abrofo hɔn nhyɛdo dwumadzi no do , na w'ako agye tumi a ɔyɛ hɔn ne dze." Dawurbɔ krataa ne wura bɛpɛɛ n'asɛm, na wɔber pa mu no woyɛɛ awarfo wɔ 1933. Wɔ 1939, ɔkɔ kasaa wɔ kasa mfirdo dze boa akodzi no ho nsɛm ho.  

Mber a  *The Times of West Africa*  dwumadzi gui no, ɔkɔɔ do kyerɛw maa *African Morning Post* (1935–40),  *Nigerian Daily Times* (1936–37),  *Accra Evening News* (1950–1960s) na *Daily Graphic* (1952).Wɔ mfe 1951 odzii dwuma dɛ ɔkyerɛwfo ma *Accra Evening News* —  Convention People's Party (CPP) hɔn nkrataa, wɔtsew no wɔ afe 1948 — ɔyɛ basia a ɔtɔ ebien a odzii dwuma dɛ dawurbɔ nkrataa ne kyerɛwfo wɔ Ghana.Mbom dwumadzi no kɔɔ n'ewieyɛ wɔ bosom enum n'ekyir osian akasakasa a ɔkɔɔ do wɔ CPP hɔn panyin Kwame Nkrumah fa akyerɛwsɛm ne ho nhyehyɛe no ho nsɛm ho, odzii nokwar ma  Nkrumah na abatowkuw no.   

## Amambu ho nsɛm
Ne nkitahodzi wɔ amanbu ho dwumadzi no hyɛɛ ase wɔ aber a Kwame Nkrumah tsew ne Convention People's Party (CPP), wɔ 1949, na ɔbɛyɛ edwumayɛfo wɔ *Accra Evening News*,[1] na odzii akotsen wɔ dawurbɔ a wɔdze British amanbu no beba n'ewieyɛ na ama mpremprem mu no hɔn ara hɔn aban ebu ne man wɔ Gold Coast.Wɔ abatow mber mu no wɔ afe 1954, ɔbɔɔ ne ho mbɔdzen dze boaboa mbasiafo hɔn ano ma CPP, na ekyir no wɔdze no gyinae dɛ CPP ananmusifo ma Ga Rural abatowbea, na odzii nkonyim. N'abatow no ma ɔbɛyɛɛ basia a odzikan dɛ edwumayɛfo ma Legislative Assembly dze ma Gold Coast.[2]

## Creative Writing
Na ɔyɛ ɔkyerɛwfo a ɔbɔ ne ho mbɔdzen yie wɔ mber eduanan mu na ne mboree – n'akyerɛwsɛm a ɔdaa no edzi kyerɛ amansan a ɔyɛ awensɛm ntsiantsia no bi nye *The Happenings of the Night* (1931),The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw (1934), Anticipation (1947), The Torn Veil (1947), Payment (1947), Invisible Scar (1966) na Evidence of Passion (1969) — kɔpem aber a n'akyerɛw dwumadzi no ba n'ewieyɛ osiandɛ n'enyiwa bɛ furae wɔ afe 1972.[1]W'aboa ne ndwuma n'ano na w'ada no edzi na ibi nye Langston Hughes′ An African Treasury: Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems (1960), na Margaret Busby ne Daughters of Africa (1992). Ne ndwuma a w'aboa ano no, Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist (Stephanie Newell na Audrey Gadzekpo na wodzii ho dwuma), wɔdze bɔtoo gua wɔ afe 2004.

## Ankorankor n'abrabɔ ho nsɛm
Wɔ bosoom Fankwa 1933, Dove ware mbrahyɛbedwanyi na abakɔsɛm ne nyimdzeefo J. B. Danquah na wɔwoo ba banyin, Vladimir. Mbom, hɔn awar no "gui osian mber tsentsen a nna Danquah nnyi hɔ a ofrii 1934–36 nna ɔyɛ England hɔn ɔkyerɛwfo dze ma Gold Coast hɔn ntemugyinafo " na awarfo no guu hɔn awar no wɔ 1940 ne mfinimfin.

## No ho nsɛm a w'akeka abɔmu
*• The Happenings of the Night* (1931) 

*• The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw* (1934) 

*• Anticipation* (1947) 

*• The Torn Veil* (1947) 

*• Payment* (1947) 

*• Invisible Scar* (1966) 

*• Evidence of Passion* (1969) 

*• Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist* ( Stephanie Newell na Audrey Gadzekpo wɔyɛɛ ho edwuma ). Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004.  .

## Legacy
Dove ne asesrewsɛm ho akyrɛwsɛm fa George Bernard Shaw ne *The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God* (1932), a ɔmaa ne tsir asɛm *The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw*, wɔdze ka British Library ne 2015–16 ɔyɛkyerɛw no mu wɔ *West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song*.

## Akenkan a odzidzi do
• 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, pp. 217–224. 

• Audrey Gadzekpo, "The Hidden History of Gender in Ghanaian Print Culture", in Oyeronke Oyewumi (ed.), *African Gender Studies: A Reader*, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 279–296. 

• K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, *Profiles – First Lady of Pen and Parliament – A Portrait* (1975) 

• Stephanie Newell, "White cargoes/black cargoes on the West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove's *A Woman in Jade*", *Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: "How to Play the Game of Life"*, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 119–134. 

• Naana J. Opoku-Agyeman, "Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah", in Stephanie Newell (ed.), *Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa*, London: Zed Books, 1997, pp. 74–75.

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