Mary Lokko was a Ghanaian activist active in the West African Youth League in the 1930s and the first woman in West Africa to hold a position in a political organisation.[1]
Lokko was originally a seamstress from Accra. active in the affairs of the West African Youth League in the 1930s, first becoming involved in discussions surrounding the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, which was then raging. In January 1936 she became assistant to I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson. She organised the Women's section of the Youth League[2] and toured the country collecting relief funds for Ethiopia[3]. Little is known about her background or her later life.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Amplifying Youth-led Political Movements In Africa - African Leadership Magazine". 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
- ^ Asante, S. K. B. (1975). "I.t.a. Wallace Johnson and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (4): 631–646. ISSN 0018-2540.
- ^ Asante, S. K. B. (1975). "I.t.a. Wallace Johnson and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (4): 631–646. ISSN 0018-2540.
- ^ Kathleen E. Sheldon (2005). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5331-7.
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