Adeline Akufo-Addo
{{short description|First Lady in the second republic of Ghana}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Adeline Akufo-Addo
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| office = First Lady of Ghana
| term_label = In role
| term_start = 31 August 1970
| term_end = 13 January 1972
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| president = Edward Akufo-Addo
| birth_name = Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1917|12|17}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|3|21|1917|12|17|df=y}}
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| spouse = Edward Akufo-Addo
| children = 4, including Nana Akufo-Addo
| parents = {{unbulleted list|Ofori Atta I|Agnes Akosua Dodua}}
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| alma_mater = Achimota School{{Cite web|url=https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/depleting-rank-of-ex-first-ladies-first-mothers/|title=Depleting rank of ex-first ladies, first mothers|last1=Elegbede|first1=Wale|date=24 April 2018|website=New Telegraph|language=en|access-date=6 May 2018}}
| relatives = {{unbulleted list|William Ofori-Atta (brother)|Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta (brother)|Susan Ofori-Atta (sister)|Kwesi Amoako-Atta (brother)|Jones Ofori Atta (brother)}}
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Adeline Sylvia Eugenia Ama Yeboakua Akufo-Addo (née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta; 17 December 1917 – 21 March 2004) was a First Lady of the second republic of Ghana as the wife of president Edward Akufo-Addo. She was the mother of president Nana Akufo-Addo.
She died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on 21 March 2004, aged 86.
Personal life
Born to Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, Omanhene of Akyem Abuakwa, and Agnes Akosua Dodua of Abomosu,{{cite news|title=Nana Addo remembers mother|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com//GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Nana-Addo-remembers-mother-304184|access-date=May 8, 2018|work=Ghana Web|date=24 March 2014|language=en}} she was the Abontendomhene (the queen mother of the royal house of Ofori Panin Fie of Kyebi). As such, she was officially styled as Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta.{{cite news|title=Former First Lady Adeline Akufo-Addo laid to rest|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com//GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Former-First-Lady-Adline-Akufo-Addo-Laid-to-rest-57848|access-date=8 May 2018|work=Ghana Web|date=15 May 2004|language=en}}{{cite book|author=Harold B. Martinson|title=Ghana: The Dream of the 21st Century: Politics of J.B. Danquah, Busia and Kufuor Tradition|year=2001|publisher=Norcento Press|isbn=978-9988-7767-6-3|page=105}}
Her elder sister was Susan Ofori-Atta, the first female doctor from the Gold Coast.{{cite book|author=Adell Patton |title=Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa |url=https://archive.org/details/physicianscoloni0000patt |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=978-0-8130-1432-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/physicianscoloni0000patt/page/29 29]– }}{{cite book|author=Richard Rathbone |title=Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_ccM4XO_igC&pg=PA40 |year=1993 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-05504-7 |page=40 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414225533/https://books.google.com/books?id=8_ccM4XO_igC&pg=PA40 |archive-date=14 April 2017 }}{{Cite journal|last1=Tetty|first1=Charles|s2cid=7298703|date=1985|title=Medical Practitioners of African Descent in Colonial Ghana|jstor=217977|journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies|volume=18|issue=1|pages=139–144|doi=10.2307/217977|pmid=11617203}} Nana Kwame Asamoa-Boateng, {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20180814080617/http://dailyguideafrica.com/otumfuo-storms-ofori-panie-fie/ "Otumfuo Storms Ofori Panie Fie"]}}, Daily Guide, 9 August 2018. Adeline Akufo-Addo's older brother was William Ofori-Atta, the Gold Coast politician and lawyer, former foreign minister and one of the founding leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) as well as a member of "The Big Six", the group of political activists detained by the British colonial government after the 1948 Accra riots, kicking off the struggle for the attainment of Ghana's independence in 1957. Her other brother was Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, a Minister for Local Government in the Convention People's Party (CPP) government of Kwame Nkrumah and later Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.Nana Kwame Asamoa-Boateng, {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20180929000121/http://dailyguideafrica.com/otumfuo-storms-ofori-panie-fie/ "Otumfuo Storms Ofori Panie Fie"]}} , Daily Guide, 9 August 2018.
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