The first female general in the Ghana Army, Brigadier-General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, is dead. She died at the 37 military hospital yesterday 24 January 2022, after a short illness.
Gen. Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, was commissioned into the Ghana Armed Forces on 25 April 1980 as a Second Lieutenant, after an eighteen months regular training at the Ghana Military Academy.
She was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, the highest position ever occupied by a female in the Armed Forces, on March 7, 2016.
