Background
Akua Dansua was born on April 23rd, 1958, at Hohoe, the Hohoe Municipal District of the Volta Region, Ghana. Her family hail from Botoku, also in the Volta Region.
Akua Dansua was born on April 23rd, 1958, at Hohoe, the Hohoe Municipal District of the Volta Region, Ghana. Her family hail from Botoku, also in the Volta Region.
Akua Sena Dansua received her primary education from the Kadjebi-Akan Local Authority Experimental Primary and Middle School. Later, she attended the Mawuli School at Ho, the capital of the Volta Region, from where she obtained her secondary education. She completed her journalism studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism’ in Accra.
She became a postgraduate student of Communication Studies at the University of Ghana at Legon and completed the course in 1990. She also acquired a Master’s degree in ‘Governance and Leadership’ from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
Akua Dansua was Electoral Assistant at the Electoral Commission of Ghana between 1979 and 1980. From 1983 to 1987 she was the Chief Reporter of the Nigerian Reporter newspaper. She worked with the Weekly Spectator newspaper in Accra, Ghana, as a journalist, eventually becoming the Features Editor of the paper. She held this position until she moved into politics. She has also served as Technical Advisor to the National Council on Women and Development and as a Media Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Dansua is a member of the National Democratic Congress. She was appointed District Chief Executive for Kpando under the Provisional National Defence Council government of Jerry Rawlings. She first entered parliament in 2001 as the MP for the North Dayi constituency. She is divorced and has three children. She first became a minister of state in 2009 when she was appointed Minister for Women and Children's Affairs. She became the first Female Minister for Youth and Sports after a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010 and Minister for Tourism on 4 January 2011. In January 2011, she was appointed Minister for Tourism, replacing Zita Okaikoi. She is currently the Ambassador of Ghana to Germany.
Her political views are clearly seen in her tireless work for her country and the world as a whole. Ambassador Dansua has represented her Country, Ghana and Parliament on several important platforms, including the globally-acclaimed Fifth International Conference of Women in Beijing, China in 1995, the Global Conference on Governance in Manila, Philippines in 1998, the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Democracy in India at the Lok Sabha in 2003 and the Beijing+10 Review Meeting in the United Nations in 2005. She led Ghana’s Delegation as Minister of Women and Children to the Beijing 14 Review Meeting at the UN in New York, and made a special case at UNDP Headquarters for restructuring Ghana’s Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs which was subsequently done. Earlier in her career, Ambassador Dansua served as a District Chief Executive in the Kpando District, between July 1997 and December, 2000.
Ambassador Dansua was a member of several Parliamentary International Associations including the World Bank Network of Parliamentarians, e-Parliament Network, Secretary General to the Coalition of African Parliamentarians Against HIV/AIDS (CAPAH), and one-time Secretary to the Ghana Chapter of the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC).
Ms Akua Sena Dansua made this known in a speech read on her behalf at the opening ceremony of a three-day workshop in Accra to develop training manuals and protocols on the Domestic Violence and Domestic Act for stakeholders that Inadequate offices for the Domestic Violence and Victim's Support Unit (DOVVSU) in the country has been identified as a factor impacting negatively on the prosecution of violence cases against women and children in the rural areas.
Quotations:
"Gender related crimes require special knowledge, understanding and expertise to handle them appropriately."
"I wish on behalf of His Excellency President John DramaniMahama of Ghana and the entire Citizenry of Ghana to welcome you to the commemoration of Ghana's 58th Anniversary. We are grateful that you honor the invitation to celebrate with us."
Ambassador Dansua is a Gender, Children’s Rights and HIV/AIDS Activist with great interest in NGO work and has expertise in Communications, Gender and Youth Development, Local and International Governance, Sports for Development and sustainable Tourism.
she is divorced and has three children