Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings
Source: Africa Publicity
The Government of Ghana has confirmed the death of the country’s former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
In a statement released Thursday evening, October 23, 2025, the Ghanaian Government announced “with deep regret and profound sorrow, the untimely passing of former First Lady and Founder of the 31st December Women’s Movement, Her Excellency Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings this morning after a short illness.”
According to the statement issued by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Spokesperson to President John Mahama and Minister for Government Communications, “Government extends its deepest condolences to her immediate family.”
She passed away age 76 at the Ridge Hospital in Accra on Thursday, October 23, 2025.
She was the widow of late former President Jerry John Rawlings. Mr. Rawlings – a former military leader turned democratic president – died at the age of 73 on November 12, 2020.
Mrs. Rawlings was born on November 17, 1948 in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region of Ghana.
She was a towering figure in Ghana’s political and social landscape.
Following her exit from the National Democratic Party (NDC), she founder the National Democratic Party (NDP).
She was renowned for her strong advocacy for women’s empowerment and social development.
In August this year, she was at the Jubilee House in Accra with her children and other family members to pay their last respects of the helicopter crash in two Ghanaian ministers and six other individuals died.
She was also recently in attendance at the Dote Yie funeral rites for the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III.
