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Like Michelle Obama, I am a woman of color. Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation.
Unlike Michelle Obama, I can t keep track of the number of times I ve been proud really proud of my country since I was born and privileged to live in it.
At a speech in Milwaukee this week on behalf of her husband s Democratic presidential campaign, Mrs. Obama remarked, For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and
Felicia Edem Attipoe, Ghana’s first aircraft marshaller
When Felicia Edem Attipoe was working at the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) as a secretary in 1999, she had no plans of becoming an aircraft marshaller and for that matter, the first woman to earn that title in Ghana.
Her story is one marked with grits and grace, serving as a source of inspiration to many women not only in Africa but across the world.
According to a post she shared on her Facebook page, sighted by GhanaWeb, she left the country to study and came back home with a broken marriage.