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Gifty Anti wrong in describing Akua Donkor as a bad choice - Gender Activist
In an interview with Pulse.com.gh, the Executive Director for Gender Centre for Empowering Development, Esther Tawiah said the comments by Gifty Anti could deepen the perception by rural women that gender activism has become an elitist movement.
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In an interview with Pulse.com.gh, the Executive Director for Gender Centre for Empowering Development, Esther Tawiah said the comments by Gifty Anti, who also doubles as a gender advocate could deepen the perception by rural women that gender activism has become an elitist movement.
“Women are contesting everyday and they are losing because these rural women have this idea that these elitist people want us to vote for them to be in power, but that is not it,” she added.
Akua Donkor is the founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP). She is a cocoa farmer by profession, and believed not to have had any formal education.
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She however receives formal invitations from President John Mahama and his government to attend state functions.
She was disqualified by the Electoral Commission in 2012 when she declared her intentions to contest in the presidential race.
Many have criticized her for her sometimes unsavoury comments in public, saying she is not the best choice for the presidency.
But Ms. Tawiah believes what Akua Donkor needs is capacity building and mentoring in order to shape and empower her.
“We appreciate that these rural women need capacity to be able to do active democratic government. And so give them that capacity they need. So if you feel that Akua Donkor lacks that capacity as a gender activist, what you need to do is that approach her, give her the capacity. If you [Gifty Anti] feel that she can’t speak English, and it is a challenge, the University of Ghana provides adult education, have you suggested it to her before? What is the possible way of getting her to do some of the things that in this global world you think she needs to empower her,” Ms. Tawiah asked.
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Meanwhile, Akua Donkor has indicated that Gifty Anti undermining her political ambition shows that she is jealous of her political success over the years.
Akua Donkor and former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings are the only women in Ghana to have declared their intention of becoming president.
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