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Theodosia Salome Okoh (née Theodosia Salome Abena Kumia Asihene) was the artist who designed Ghana’s national flag, which was first hoisted by Kwame Nkrumah on the country’s Independence Day on 6 March 1957. T. Okoh was born to Anum Guan parents, the fourth child of the couple of Dora Poobea Akyea and the Very Reverend Emmanuel Victor Asihene. Her father, a pioneer graduate of the “Hand and Eye”, the first art-based curriculum introduced by the British colonial government in the late 1800s, was one of the Gold Coast’s earliest professionally-trained art teachers. Her older sibling, Ernest Victor Asihene (1915–2001), was an artist and scholar who became the dean of the College of Art and the pro-vice chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
In 1927, T. Okoh started her education in Effiduase, in the now Ashanti region, where her father had been posted as the minister to the Presbyterian Church. She then attended with her sister, Lucy Janet Abena Bohema Asihene, the Basel Mission Girls’ School at Agogo. T. Okoh stayed at Agogo to undertake
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Theodosia Okoh
Designer of the Ghana national flag (1922–2015)
Theodosia Salome Okoh (born 13 June 1922 – 19 April 2015)[4] was a Ghanaian teacher and artist known for designing Ghana's national flag in 1957.[5] She exhibited her artwork internationally.[6] She also played a leading role in the development of hockey in Ghana.[7] Her grandson is Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and her granddaughter-in-law is Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe.
Early years and education
She was born as Theodosia Salome Abena Kumea Asihene in Effiduase[8] to the Very Reverend Emmanuel Victor Asihene, a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, and Madam Dora Asihene, both from Anum in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana's Eastern Region.[9] She was the fourth of eight children. She had the opportunity to travel around Ghana and abroad with her father.[10]
She started school at Ashanti Efiduasi Primary School, continued to the Basel Mission Middle, Senior and Teacher Trai
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The Story of Theodosia Okoh
TNP: Did he share anything that happened in Hanoi?
AO: No…certainly not with me. All I know is that he and a couple of his colleagues decided to come back so they went to London and then came to Accra. There may have been more to the story but again I was just a child. I know it was very traumatic.
TNP: What was that day like?
AO: There were soldiers on the street. There were barricades everywhere. They’d stop cars. I don’t know what they were searching for. It was a very surreal day I think for everyone, a surreal week or two for everybody. There was a lot of jubilation in the streets. When you’re a child you don’t know what’s really happening. I don’t think I could really understand it but I knew it was a defining moment in my life because I knew things would never be the same but I didn’t know much. I didn’t know why there was a coup or anything at that age. You learn about it when you’re a little older; the unhappiness with the president and his policies and lots of people who were arrested for no reason. He apparently surrounded himself
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