The Yaa Asantewa Award

This award was instituted in 2005 by Mr Joe Frans, Ghanaian born member of the Swedish national parliament (Riksdag). The prize is to be awarded to any woman with roots in Ghana or with a strong attachment to Ghana who has worked in the spirit of the Ashanti female hero, Yaa Asantewa, who led her people to war. The prize, to be adminstered by the Ghana Union in Stockholm, is to be awarded at celebrations in Stockholm marking Ghana's independence day on the Saturday around the 6th of March each year. The recipients are to be chosen by a committee of the union under the chairmanship of Suberu Salaam. The Ghana Union has decided to widen the scope of the award and invited the other organisations of Ghanaians in Stockholm to sit on the committee and suggest possible recipients.

The first recipient of the award was Ms Grace Mahama who was for several years the president of Ghana Union in Stockholm. She has also served in many other capacities and has been one of the chief cooks at the union's functions.

Ms Grace Mahama, recipient of the Yaa Asantewa Award, 2005		Kalata Akolor receives the Yaa Asantewa Award 2005, on behalf of his mother
Ghana Embassy official who presented the award and Francis Boamah president, Ghana Union.		Francis Boamah, Ghana Embassy official, and Joe Frans, founder of the award.

The charter establishing the Yaa Asantewa Award.