Melody Millicent Danquah (6 January 1937 - 18 March 2016) was a Ghanaian pilot

Melody Millicent Danquah (6 January 1937 - 18 March 2016) was a Ghanaian pilot. She was the first female pilot in Ghana 🇬🇭 and one of the earliest in Africa.She followed in the footsteps of Lotfia Elnadi who was the first Egyptian 🇪🇬 woman as well as the first woman from Africa to earn a pilot's license on 27 September 1933.
Melody Danquah was born in Larteh Akuapem, on 6 January 1937 to Ibinijah Rexford Addo-Danquah, who was the illustrious Court Registrar and Arbitrator of Larteh. Her mother was Selina Gyamfi. Melody was the sixth of 10 siblings
Danquah was educated at the Methodist Primary and Middle schools in Larteh and Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast. She was also a product of the Government Secretarial School
She was chosen among the first three women towards the end of 1963 to be trained in the Ghana Air Force as pilots. Unfortunately Joana Araba Dickson didn't make it due to eye complication, but Melody and Ayeley progressed on to be the first female pilots in Ghana. Melody successfully made the grade and the subsequent basic military training at the Ghana Military Academy.

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