Background
Henry Siedu Daanaa was born in 1955 in Tuasa in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
Henry Siedu Daanaa was born in 1955 in Tuasa in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
Daanaa enrolled into the Law Faculty of the University of Ghana in 1979 and completed his undergraduate coursework in 1981. From 1986 to 1992, he completed his Doctorate and Degree programmes in Law from the same university.
He was the first visually impaired person to be approved as a Minister of State in Ghana. He was nominated for the position by President John Dramani Mahama in January 2013. He then went to the London School of Economics and Political Science to get his master"s degree in law.
The Board of Legal Education approved Daanaa"s admission to the Ghana School of Law for a two-year professional law course.
His education was through the use of Braille equipment which he provided. He successfully completed the course and was called to the Ghana Bar, becoming the first blind lawyer in the country.
He worked in with the Regional House of Chiefs in almost all the ten Regions of Ghana and rose to become the National Director of Research at the Ministry of Culture and Chieftaincy. He worked with the Ministry for over nineteen years and served in various capacities including being the chief research fellow for the ministry.
Daanaa was approved as a minister by the Parliament of Ghana along with ten others on 13 February 2013.
Upon his confirmation as the sector minister, Yaw Ofori Debrah, president of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled hailed his appointment as a recognition of the talents of physically impaired persons.
Daanaa was a Board Member of trustees of the Ghana Society for the Blind from 1995 and 1999.