Angela Dwamena-Aboagye


Angela Dwamena-Aboagye is a Ghanaian lawyer, gender activist, and the Executive Director of The Ark Foundation Ghana. The Ark Foundation is an NGO that seeks to address women’s human rights in Ghana. Dwamena-Aboagye established the first shelter for battered women in Ghana and also set up a crisis centre, with a legal centre and a counselling centre to render sexual and gender based violence and child abuse services in different locations in Ghana, she is also a counsellor, and a motivational public speaker.

Early life

Angela Dwamena-Aboagye was born in 1965.

Education

Dwamena-Aboagye attended the Mfantsiman Secondary School and also Holy Child School. She graduated from the University of Ghana and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, and also a Qualifying Certificate of Law as a Barrister from the Ghana Law School.
Dwamena-Aboagye also obtained a master's degree in law from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., US and also a Master of Arts Degree in Theology from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong Ghana.

Personal life

She is married to Kwame Dwamena-Aboagye for over twenty-three years. Kwame also works as a consultant for the Foundation, and they have four children; Freda, Dorsina, Nana Akua and Kwaku Dwamena-Aboagye.

Career

She is an Adjunct Lecturer in gender and the law in the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana; and also a consultant and trainer on gender and women’s human rights. She also worked with the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General’s Department from 1990 to 1999 but resigned to found The Ark Foundation Ghana.

Awards and recognition

Angela's key works with gender and human rights has earned her a lot of awards and recognition.