In this paper, I reflect on the contribution of Ghanaian nationalist women towards the independence struggle and post-independence nation building (1950–1970), and their erasure from the mainstream history of Ghana. I rely on the literature on women’s political participation in Ghana and the scholarship on memorializing people for meritorious service in Ghana to explore women as victims of historical erasure. I also deploy other sources like the national currencies, commemorative dates, and naming of monuments to highlight the relative weight we attach to women’s and men’s political contribution to nation building. I argue that despite women’s frontal roles, including movement making, organizing prowess, founding parties, leading civil disruptions, and even funding the independence of Ghana, state-led commemorative acts and memorializing practices belie women’s effort and historize men as founders of Ghana. Such de-historizing is often endorsed by male-led political regimes. To ameliorate this masculinization of the memorializing concern, the paper proffers guidelines to enable a fairer memorializing practice. This includes acknowledging the gender biases in our memorializing practices, researching the unnamed leading women, making their information mainstream, renaming our already named monuments to include leading women, and embossing their portraits on our national currencies alongside the men.

在本文中，我反思了加纳民族主义妇女对独立斗争和独立后国家建设（1950-1970）的贡献，以及她们从加纳主流历史中消失的情况。我依靠有关加纳妇女政治参与的文献和纪念加纳功勋人物的奖学金来探索作为历史抹杀受害者的妇女。我还利用其他来源，如国家货币、纪念日期和纪念碑命名来强调我们对女性和男性对国家建设的政治贡献的相对重视。我认为，尽管妇女发挥着正面作用，包括发起运动、组织力量、创办政党、领导内乱，甚至资助加纳的独立，但国家主导的纪念活动和纪念活动掩盖了妇女的努力，并将男性视为加纳的创始人。这种去历史化往往得到男性领导的政治政权的认可。为了改善这种男性化的纪念关注，本文提供了指导方针，以实现更公平的纪念实践。这包括承认我们纪念活动中的性别偏见，研究未命名的女性领军人物，使她们的信息成为主流，将我们已经命名的纪念碑重新命名为包括女性领军人物，以及将她们的肖像与男性肖像一起印在我们的国家货币上。