Kate Abbam

Kate Abbam
Born
Ewura Ekua Badoe

24 October 1934
Cape Coast, Ghana
DiedMay 2016(2016-05-00) (aged 81)
EducationSaint Monica's Convent; Mmofraturo School; A. M. E. Zion School; Wesley Girls' High School
Alma materQueen Elizabeth College
University of Ghana, Legon
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor and consultant on women and development
Known forFounder of Ghana's first women's magazine

Kate Victoria Teiba Abbam, born Ewura Ekua Badoe (24 October 1934 – May 2016) was a Ghanaian journalist, editor and consultant on women and development.[1][2] Abbam founded Ghana's first women's magazine, Obaa Sima ("The Ideal Woman"), in 1971.[3]

  1. ^ "Kate Abbam passes on" Archived 2019-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Modern Ghana, 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ Edmund Quaynor, "Editor of 'Obaa Sima' magazine passes on" Archived 2019-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Ghana News Agency, 28 July 2016.
  3. ^ Bryce, Jane (2016). "'Who No Know Go Know': Popular Fiction in Africa and the Caribbean". In Simon Gikandi (ed.). The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950. Oxford University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-19-976509-6.