"I Have Tamed My Wife" By Mabel Dove Danquah Read By Fauziyatu Moro (Ghana) by Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora published on 2020-07-31T12:28:38Z MABEL DOVE DANQUAH (1905–1984) was a Gold Coast-born journalist, political activist and creative writer, one of the earliest women in West Africa to work in these fields. As Francis Elsbend Kofigah notes in relation to Ghana's literary pioneers, "before the emergence of such strong exponents of literary feminism as Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, there was Mabel Dove Danquah, the trail-blazing feminist." She used various pseudonyms in her writing for newspapers from the 1930s: "Marjorie Mensah" in The Times of West Africa; "Dama Dumas" in the African Morning Post; "Ebun Alakija" in the Nigerian Daily Times; and "Akosua Dzatsui" in the Accra Evening News. Entering politics in the 1950s before Ghana's independence, she became the first woman to be elected a member of any African legislative assembly. FAUZIYATU MORO is an MPhil History student at the University of Ghana. Genre Storytelling