Lucy Anin (born 13 June 1939) is a
Ghanaian
The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Gold Coast (region), Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of ...
politician. She was a member of parliament representing the
Brong Ahafo Region
The Brong-Ahafo region was a region in central Ghana. Brong-Ahafo was bordered to the north by the Black Volta river and to the east by the Lake Volta, and to the south by the Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions. The capital of Brong-Ahafo is ...
from 1960 to 1965 and the member of parliament for the Bechem constituency from 1965 to 1966.
Life and politics
Anin was among the first women to enter the
Parliament of Ghana
The Parliament of Ghana is the unicameral legislature of Ghana. It consists of 276 members, who are elected for four-year terms in single-seat Electoral district, constituencies using a first-past-the-post voting system.
History
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in 1960 under the representation of the people (women members) act. She was among the 10 women who were elected unopposed on 27 June 1960 on the ticket of the
Convention People's Party
The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGC ...
.
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"Anti-Nkrumah agents planting ‘Trojan horses’ in CPP — Lucy Anin"
Graphic Online, 12 June 2019.
She subsequently became the youngest member of parliament, entering parliament at the age of 21. In 1965, she became the member of parliament representing the Bechem constituency. In 1966 when the
Nkrumah government
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister of Ghana, Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first gover ...
was overthrown she was imprisoned for 8 months while pregnant.
Today, she is a member of the Convention People's Party council of elders and the only woman among the ten women in Ghana's first parliament alive.
She is the cousin of jurist and former Supreme Court judge;
Patrick Dankwa Anin, and economist and former chief executive officer of the
Ghana Commercial Bank;
T. E. Anin.
See also
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References
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1939 births
Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965
Ghanaian MPs 1965–1966
Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians
20th-century Ghanaian women politicians
Living people