The late Mrs. Mary Adu Boahen
The one-week celebration of the death of Mrs Mary Adu Boahen, will be held on Monday, October 24, 2016 at the Accra Ridge Church at 7am prompt followed by a gathering at the Airport Residence of her late husband.
Auntie Mary as she was popularly known was the wife of Professor Albert Adu Boahen, the 1992 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
She was a seasoned political activist in her own right and an ardent member of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) who gained the full confidence of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Having been a close confidant of Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, she was ready to do anything and everything to liberate her country from the dirty clutches of imperialism.
Auntie Mary is reputed to have been one of the main couriers of the Osagyefo carrying messages between Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana.
At one point she was at the very centre of the effort to return Nkrumah to power and her activities got noticed by the National Liberation Council (NLC) which declared her wanted.
In 1979, Mrs Adu Boahen became a founding member of the Peoples Movement for Freedom and Justice (PMFJ), then led by General Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa and the veteran Nationalist leader, Komla Agleh Gbedemah.
She was arrested and detained by the Acheampong Government as a result of her political activities.
In the early 1990, Mrs Adu Boahen played a leading role, in the agitation for the restoration of multi-party rule in Ghana and was a crucial force in the Movement for Freedom and Justice chaired by her husband.
She left behind sons and daughters including Mrs. Irene Tagoe.
