Kate Abbam

Kate Victoria Teiba Abbam, born Ewura Ekua Badoe (24 October 1934 – May 2016) was a Ghanaian journalist, editor and consultant on women and development. Abbam founded Ghana's first women's magazine, Obaa Sima ("The Ideal Woman"), in 1971.

Life Awura Ekuwa Badoe was born on 24 October 1934 in Cape Coast. She was given a Christian education, and renamed Kate Victoria, at Saint Monica's Convent, Cape Coast, Mmofraturo School in Kumasi, the A. M. E. Zion School in Cape Coast and Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast. She won a Ghana government scholarship to read for a degree in Home Science at Queen Elizabeth College in London. She then studied General Science at University of Ghana, Legon. From 1964 to 1969 she worked at the Food Research Institute, analysing food and food products.

In July 1972, Abbam's husband died, leaving her with small children. She wrote about her treatment as a widow, summarily dispossessed by her husband's family, in Obaa Sima. In 1993, she was enstooled Queenmother of the Anona clan in the Ekumfi Eyisam in the Central Region, making her Nana Assanwa Ewudziwa Gyampaafor II.

She died in May 2016. Her niece is the writer Adwoa Badoe.

Works Sweet Deceit (as Awura-Ekuwa Badoe) Beloved Twin, Scorpio Books Ghana, 1973 (as Ekuwa Teima Badoe) I Shall Return: romance from the woods. 1975