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Mercy ffoulkes-Crabbe

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Mercy Kwarley ffoulkes-Crabbe, née Quartey-Papafio (6 Ɔbɛnem 1894 – 14 Ɔbɛnem 1974) yɛ Ghana ɔkyerɛkyerɛni, ɔbaa a ɔdi kan a ɔyɛ aborɔfo a ɔdii sukuu bi anim wɔ Gold Coast . Na ɔyɛ mmea kyerɛwfo nso, wɔ edin hunu Gloria ase, ma Gold Coast Times .[1][2]

Mfitiase Asetra ne Nhomasua

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Na Mercy Quartey-Papafio yɛ Benjamin Quartey-Papafio, Gold Coast oduruyɛfo a odi kan, ne Hannah Maria Duncan a ofi Cape Coast no babea. Ɔsuaa ade wɔ Wesleyan Methodist sukuu a ɛwɔ Cape Coast ne Accra Grammar School, a ne papa ne no hyehyɛɛ no. Bere a odii mfe 16 no, ɔbɛyɛɛ abeawa a odi kan wɔ Afrika Atɔe Fam a onyaa College of Preceptors ne Senior Cambridge Certificate. Wɔ 1911 mu no, ofii ase kyerɛɛ ade wɔ Accra Aban Mmabaa Sukuu, a na n’akatua yɛ £25 afe biara. Wɔ 1913 mu no, wɔde ɔne ne nuabea Ruby kɔɔ Saxonholme Sukuu a ɛwɔ Birkdale, na wɔsan kɔɔ Accra wɔ 1915 mu. Na ɔyɛ sukuu panyin boafo wɔ Accra Aban Mmabaa Sukuu mu, na na ɔyɛ sukuu panyin a ɔyɛ adwuma wɔ bere bi mu.

Wɔ 1921 mu no wɔpaw no sɛ Cape Coast Aban Mmabaa Sukuu no panyin . Ɔkɔɔ so yɛɛ adwuma no kosii sɛ ogyaee adwuma wɔ 1949 mu, na ɔtetee n’akyerɛkyerɛfo wɔ sukuu akyi de siesiee ne ho maa abɔnten so adansedi sɔhwɛ. Ɔno na odii kan wɔ Gold Coast a ɔde Awofo Akyerɛkyerɛfo Fekuw bi bae, sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a ntease a ɛwɔ awofo ne akyerɛkyerɛfo ntam no atu mpɔn. Ɔde anwummere adesua nso bae ma mmea a wɔanyinyin wɔ Cape Coast, ɛwom sɛ na ɛsɛ sɛ ogyae adeyɛ no bere a okununom sɔre tiaa no de.

Wɔ 1949 mu no wɔmaa no MBE . Wɔ 1953 mu no ɔboaa Evelyn Amarteifio ma wɔhyehyɛɛ Ɔman Sikakɔbea Mmea Fekuw, na ɔsom sɛ ne titrani a odi kan.

Owuo

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Owui wɔ June 1974 mu, na wosiee no wɔ Osu amusiei.

Nsɛm a wɔde gyinaa so

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  1. Gadzekpo, Audrey (27 September 2016). "The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture". In Oyeronke Oyewumi (ed.). African Gender Studies: A Reader. Springer. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-137-09009-6.
  2. Gadzekpo, Audrey (2006). "Public but Private: A transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe". In Karin Barber (ed.). Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self. Indiana University Press. pp. 314–337. ISBN 0-253-34729-7.