10 African First Ladies who are (were) professional schoolteachers

Fathia Nkrumah

She was an Egyptian and the First Lady of the newly independent Ghana as the wife Kwame Nkrumah, the country’s first president.

She was born Fathia Halim Ritzk in Egypt on February 22, 1932. After completing her secondary education, where she studied French, she worked as a teacher at her school in Zeitoun, Notre Dame des Apôtres. As teaching did not appeal to her, she took a job in a bank.

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