The silence in Accra is profound. The passing of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is more than a news headline; it marks the closure of an extraordinary, often tempestuous, chapter in Ghana’s political soul. The former First Lady, a towering figure often called the Iron Lady, died at 76 on October 23, 2025, leaving a palpable void felt not just in the capital but across the rural villages she touched. Her life was an uncompromising, decades-long crusade for the dignity of the Ghanaian woman. Her death, coming nearly five years after that of her late husband, Jerry John Rawlings, feels like the final turn of a key in the nation’s post-independence narrative. Ghana weeps for a true pioneer.
