Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a private legal practitioner and social activist, has paid tribute to the late Her Excellency Mrs Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Vormawor labelled the late Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings as Ghana’s Greatest Ghanaian Feminist.
According to him, if Kwame Nkrumah was Ghana’s father, only the late former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings is fit to be Ghana’s mother.
In a post on X, Vormawor wrote, “The Greatest Ghanaian Feminist has passed!
Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings opened a door and set a standard that no First Lady has ever met.
She was the Revolution! She made modern Ghana in the way Nkrumah birthed Ghana.
If Nkrumah was Ghana’s Father. Only Konadu is fit to be mother!
She will be terribly missed!”, he wrote.
Her post comes following the passing of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Ghana’s former First Lady at the age of 76 years old.
According to reports, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was reportedly admitted to the Ridge Hospital in Accra, where she was receiving medical treatment.
The reports suggest he was unwell for some time and was under medical supervision.
Sources revealed the late First Lady passed away in the early hours of Thursday, 23 October, at the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
She served as Ghana’s longest First Lady from 1981 to 2001 as the wife of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings.
Serving from June 4, 1979, to September 24, 1979, under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
Also from December 31, 1981, to January 6, 1993, under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), and also during her husband’s two constitutional terms from January 7, 1993, to January 6, 2001.
In 2012, she left the NDC and formed the National Democratic Party (NDP) as their was the founder and leader, but the Electoral Commission (EC) disqualified her and 11 other presidential candidates.
She also created the 31st December Women’s Movement (DWM) in 1982, a movement created to empower women in Ghana through initiatives promoting entrepreneurship, education, and political participation.
The Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was part of the dignitaries who laid wreaths for the eight public servants who died in the August 6th helicopter crash.
Her most recent public appearance was participation in the Dote Yie funeral rites for the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, where she was accompanied by two of her adult children, Amina Agyeman-Rawlings and Kimathi Agyeman-Rawlings.
Meanwhile, details regarding her condition that led to her death remain unclear.
See the post below:
The Greatest Ghanaian Feminist has passed!
— Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor (@barkervogues) October 23, 2025
Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings opened a door; and set a standard that no First Lady has ever met.
She was the Revolution! She made modern Ghana in the way Nkrumah birthed Ghana.
If Nkrumah was Ghana's Father. Only Konadu is fit to be…