Kate Abbam

Kate Victoria Teiba Abbam, born Ewura Ekua Badoe (24 October 1934 – May 2016) was a Ghanaian journalist, editor and consultant on women and development.

[1][2] Abbam founded Ghana's first women's magazine, Obaa Sima ("The Ideal Woman"), in 1971.

She won a Ghana government scholarship to read for a degree in Home Science at Queen Elizabeth College in London.

She wrote about her treatment as a widow, summarily dispossessed by her husband's family, in Obaa Sima.

[9] In 1993, she was enstooled Queenmother of the Anona clan in the Ekumfi Eyisam in the Central Region, making her Nana Assanwa Ewudziwa Gyampaafor II.