Susanna Al-Hassan

Susanna Al-Hassan or Susan Alhassan was a Ghanaian politician, who in 1961 became Ghana's first female parliamentary minister.^[1] She has written several children's books.

Al-Hassan was educated at Achimota School. A beneficiary of the 1960 Representation of the People’s (Women Members) Bill, Al-Hassan was returned unopposed as an MP representing the Northern Region in June 1960.^[2][3][4] From 1961 to 1963 she was Deputy Minister of Education in Nkrumah's republican government. From 1963 to 1966, and again in 1967, she was Minister of Social Affairs.^[5] In July 1984 Jerry Rawlings appointed her to Ghana's ruling military junta, the Provisional National Defence Council.^[6]

In 2007 Al-Hassan was commemorated on a 50th anniversary stamp.^[7]

Works

• Issa and Amina, 1963
• Asana and the magic calabash, Longman, 1963. Republished, 1998
• Two tales, 1966
• The river that became a lake : the building of the Volta Dam, 1979
• The river that became a lake: The story of the Volta river project, 1979^[8]
• Voices of wisdom, 1994
• 'The Role of Women in Politics in Ghana', Feminist Perspectives, Ottawa: MATCH International Centre, 1994, 9-18.

References

External links

• Reference to the "late Mrs. Susan Alhassan"
• Works by or about Susanna Al-Hassan in libraries (WorldCat catalog)