Theodora "Dora" Boatemah MBE (July 22, 1957 – January 23, 2001) was a British Ghanaian community leader and activist based in South London.
Boatemah was born in 1957 in Kumasi, where her mother worked for Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah.
[1] In 1977, she, her partner, Earl, and their young son moved to the Angell Town Estate in Brixton, South London.
[2] She also campaigned for and won residents' right to vote on the estate's transfer from council ownership to housing action trusts.
[3] A documentary film by artist Ayo Akingbade chronicles Boatemah's life and influence on the regeneration of Angell Town Estate in Brixton, South London.