Akua Sena Dansua

Akua Sena Dansua (born 23 April 1958) is an experienced Ghanaian media and communications consultant politician and governance and leadership practitioner. She was the Member of Parliament for North Dayi in Ghana and former Ambassador to Germany.[1][2]

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Akua Sena Dansua
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for North Dayi
In office
7 January 2000 – 7 January 2013
Preceded byStephen G. Obimpeh
Majority27,108
Minister for Tourism
In office
January 2011 – January 2013
PresidentJohn Atta Mills
Preceded byZita Okaikoi
Minister for Youth and Sports
In office
January 2010 – January 2011
PresidentJohn Atta Mills
Preceded byAbdul-Rashid Pelpuo
Succeeded byClement Kofi Humado
Minister for Women and Children's Affairs
In office
February 2009 – January 2010
PresidentJohn Atta Mills
Preceded byHajia Alima Mahama
Succeeded byJuliana Azumah-Mensah
Personal details
Born (1958-04-23) 23 April 1958
Hohoe, Ghana
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNational Democratic Congress
Spouse(s)divorced
Children3
ResidenceAccra, Ghana
Alma materUniversity of Ghana, Legon and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)Legon
OccupationFormer Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
ProfessionMedia and Communications Consultant, Gender Activist and Governance and Leadership Practitioner and Consultant

Early life and education

Dansua was born at Hohoe in the Hohoe Municipal District of the Volta Region. Her family hail from Botoku, also in the Volta Region. She started her primary education at the Kadjebi-Akan Local Authority Experimental Primary and Middle School. She then went on to have her secondary education at the Mawuli School at Ho, the capital of the Volta Region. She trained as a journalist at the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra.[3] Dansua was a postgraduate student of Communication Studies at the University of Ghana at Legon, completing in 1990.[4] She also acquired a master's degree in Governance and Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.[3][5]

Career

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).[3] She is the Chairperson for Advocates for Gender and Development Initiatives-Ghana, which is an NGO at Kpando and a board member for Africa in Democracy and Good Governance (ADG) in The Gambia.[6]

Politics

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.[7] She became the first Female Minister for Youth and Sports[8] after a cabinet reshuffle in January 2010 and Minister for Tourism on 4 January 2011.[9] In January 2011, she was appointed Minister for Tourism, replacing Zita Okaikoi.[10][11] She was the Ambassador of Ghana to Germany until January 2017.[12] She was also the Ambassador of Ghana to Latvia.[13]

Personal Life

She is divorced with 3 children. She is a Christian and worships as an Evangelical Presbyterian.[1][14]

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gollark: "Features:- Fortunes/Dwarf Fortress output/Chuck Norris jokes on boot (wait, IS this a feature?)- (other) viruses (how do you get them in the first place? running random files like this?) cannot do anything particularly awful to your computer - uninterceptable (except by crashing the keyboard shortcut daemon, I guess) keyboard shortcuts allow easy wiping of the non-potatOS data so you can get back to whatever nonsense you do fast- Skynet (rednet-ish stuff over websocket to my server) and Lolcrypt (encoding data as lols and punctuation) built in for easy access!- Convenient OS-y APIs - add keyboard shortcuts, spawn background processes & do "multithreading"-ish stuff.- Great features for other idio- OS designers, like passwords and fake loading (est potatOS.stupidity.loading [time], est potatOS.stupidity.password [password]).- Digits of Tau available via a convenient command ("tau")- Potatoplex and Loading built in ("potatoplex"/"loading") (potatoplex has many undocumented options)!- Stack traces (yes, I did steal them from MBS)- Backdoors- er, remote debugging access (it's secured, via ECC signing on disks and websocket-only access requiring a key for the other one)- All this useless random junk can autoupdate (this is probably a backdoor)!- EZCopy allows you to easily install potatOS on another device, just by sticking it in the disk drive of any potatOS device!- fs.load and fs.dump - probably helpful somehow.- Blocks bad programs (like the "Webicity" browser).- Fully-featured process manager.- Can run in "hidden mode" where it's at least not obvious at a glance that potatOS is installed.- Convenient, simple uninstall with the "uninstall" command.- Turns on any networked potatOS computers!- Edits connected signs to use as ad displays.- A recycle bin.- An exorcise command, which is like delete but better.- Support for a wide variety of Lorem Ipsum."
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References
  1. "Akua Sena Dansua Biography | Profile | Ghana". www.peacefmonline.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  2. "Sena Dansua touts her achievements as MP for North Dayi". MyJoyOnline.com. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  3. "Akua Sena Dansua". Biography. Peace Fm Online. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  4. "Hon. Akua Sena Dansua (NDC) (North Dayi)". Members Of Parliament » Profile. Ghana Home Page. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  5. "Akua Sena Dansua,". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  6. "Akua Sena Dansua, Former Minister for Tourism". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  7. "Women, advertisements and Akua Dansua Sena`s beef". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  8. "Ghana calls for Fifa rule change". BBC News. 7 July 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  9. "Reshuffle Blues: Sena Dansua Heads Sports Ministry". General News of Tuesday, 26 January 2010. Ghana Home Page. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  10. "Cabinet reshuffle: Zita dropped, Betty for education". Ghana Home Page. 4 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  11. Dogbevi, Emmanuel (16 November 2012). "Free SHS possible only at expense of other sectors – Sena Dansua". Ghana Business News. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  12. "WATCH: Wiyaala meets Ghana's Ambassador to Germany Akua Sena Dansua at Kenako Festival in Berlin". YFM Ghana. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  13. "The State Secretary and the Ambassador of Ghana sign a Memorandum of Understanding on political consultations". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  14. "Ghana MPs - MP Details - Dansua, Akua Sena (Ms)". www.ghanamps.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by
Stephen Obimpeh		 Member of Parliament for North Dayi
2001–13		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Hajia Alima Mahama		 Minister for Women and Children's Affairs
2009–10		 Succeeded by
Juliana Azumah-Mensah
Preceded by
Abdul-Rashid Pelpuo		 Minister for Youth and Sports
2010–11		 Succeeded by
Clement Kofi Humado
Preceded by
Zita Okaikoi		 Minister for Tourism
2011–January 2013		 Incumbent
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