Margaret Kwakwa
Margaret Max Forson, formerly known as Margaret Kwakwa, born May 31st 1940, in Winneba, Ghana is a retired Teacher, Writer and Journalist, She studied at the University of Ghana, Legon. In 1970, she won the Canadian Award for further Studies at the University of Ottawa, from where she returned in 1972 to serve as an inspector of Schools for French in the Ministry of Education. Rising through the ranks, she quickly enjoyed stints as the Assistant Director for French in the now Ghana Education Service and then as the Director, while writing as a Journalist for the famed Ghanaian newspaper, "The Daily Mirror". She set the trail ablaze for Women's Rights when she became the first woman to deliver research on an article in women's progress in the struggle for equality in Zambia in 1979, for the UNESCA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) that was based in Addis Ababa. Following years of dedicated service, she retired as a Director of French in the Ghana Teaching Service in 1985 with various works under her belt.
