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| Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Vice-President of Ghana. |
Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang born 22 November 1951 in
Cape Coast, Ghana is a former Minister for Education in Ghana and currently, the Vice-President of the Republic of
Ghana.
She was appointed in 2013 by President John Mahama
after the 2012 Ghanaian general election and served until January 2017 when the
Nana Akuffo-Addo administration was elected to power. She is a member of the
National Democratic Congress.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang, former Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, was the first female Vice-Chancellor of a
state University in Ghana. She assumed duty on 1 October 2008, succeeding
Emmanuel Addow-Obeng. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang attended Anglican Girls'
Secondary School at Koforidua and Aburi Presby Girls' School. She then had her
secondary education at the Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast from 1964 to
1971. She completed her B.Ed. (Hons)
in English and French at the University of Cape Coast in 1977 and obtained her
Masters' and Doctorate degrees from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
in 1980 and 1986 respectively.
She taught and worked at the University of Cape Coast,
starting in 1986. She has held various academic positions including Head of the
Department of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Warden of Adehye Hall,
Valco Trust Fund Postgraduate Hostel, and Dean of the School of Graduate
Studies and Research. Since 1997, she has held the position of Academic
Director of the School for International Training in the History and Cultures
of the African Diaspora.
From 2008-2012 she was the University's Vice
Chancellor. In March 2007, she was one of five scholars selected to deliver
presentations during the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York City. In October 2009, she was elected
Ghana's representative to the Executive Board of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Ahead of the 2012
general elections, Jane Opoku Agyemang moderated the debate with Kojo Oppong
Nkrumah.
Between February 2013 and January 2017, she served as
the Education Minister of Ghana. Opoku Agyemang has been honored with honorary
degrees from the University of West Indies and Winston-Salem University. She
has also received an award for Global leadership from the University of South
Florida in Tampa.
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang,
ahead of the 2020 general elections in Ghana, was selected as his running mate
by Mr. John Mahama and the NDC. And though the NDC wasn’t successful in the
2020 general elections, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang was maintained as running mate, in
the lead up to the 2024 general elections.
And on December 7, 2024, John
Dramani Mahama and the NDC emerged victorious at the polls. This victory made Prof.
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang the first female Vice-President of the republic of Ghana after being sworn in on January 7th, 2025 at the Black Star
Square in Accra.
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