Nana Konadu meets Ghana’s oldest woman (Mirror)

Sat, July 3, 2010

NANA Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has presented a gift item and an undisclosed amount of money to Maame Adjoa Adisima, a 140-year-old woman at Yeji in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The former First Lady also inaugurated a six-unit classroom block built by the Pru District Assembly for the Methodist Primary School at Yeji.
Present at the inauguration of the block was a representative of the Minister of Education.
The block was dedicated by the Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church, Rt Rev Professor Osei Sarfo Kantanka.
Maame Adisima, whose story appeared in the Mirror of Saturday, November 14, 2009, was said to have been born in 1870 with a family record book to show.
The old woman, who is a member of the Yeji Wesley Methodist Church, has 12 children and about 100 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Although she is confined to a wheelchair and has difficulty in seeing and hearing, Maame Adisima is said to remember things which happened many years ago and can speak about them.
Evidence gathered from the old woman and other sources in the town indicated that her father, the late Nana Kojo Amoah of Ekumfi Ango in the Central Region, had travelled to settle at Yeji in 1860.
The late Nana Amoah got married to one Maame Abena, a native of Yeji, and had two children with her, Segu Amoah and Adjoa Adisima. While Segu Amoah was sent back to the Central Region for his education, Adisima stayed at Yeji with her parents and helped with their farming and trading activities.
The late Segu, after schooling in the Central Region, went back to Yeji. In 1930, he introduced Methodism there and established a school in the community which, over the years, helped in the education of the people of the town, which is currently the capital of the Pru District.
Maame Adisima is still a member of the church, together with other members of her family, which has many of the educated people in Yeji.

Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (with microphone) about to present the gift to Maame Adisima (in wheelchair). With them are Mr Masawod Mohammed, the District Chief Executive of Pru, and Rt Rev Prof Osei Sarfo Kantanka, the Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church, who prayed for the old lady.