Angela Dwamena-Aboagye

Angela Dwamena-Aboagye (born in 1965) is a Ghanaian lawyer, gender activist, and the Executive Director of The Ark Foundation Ghana.

[1] The Ark Foundation is an NGO that seeks to address women’s human rights in Ghana.

Dwamena-Aboagye established the first shelter for battered women in Ghana and also set up a crisis centre, with a legal centre and a counselling centre to render sexual and gender based violence and child abuse services in different locations in Ghana, she is also a counsellor, and a motivational public speaker.

Dwamena-Aboagye also obtained a master's degree in law from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., US and also a Master of Arts Degree in Theology from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong Ghana.

She also worked with the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General’s Department from 1990 to 1999 but resigned to found The Ark Foundation Ghana.