Marian Ewurama Addy
Ghanaian female science professor and quiz host
Marian Ewurama Addy (née Cole; 7 February 1942 – 14 January 2014) was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first Host of the National Science and Maths Quiz.
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Quotes
edit- We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
- Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, "If you educate a girl, Part II", AqueouSolutions, June 28, 2009.
- Education is a war against ignorance. Quality science education is not cheap. If we are serious about science education, we should declare war on ignorance and provide the necessary resources to fight it.
- Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, "If you educate a girl, Part II", AqueouSolutions, June 28, 2009.
- When in 1993/94, during the planning of a televised quiz programme on science, I was asked to be the Quiz Mistress, I could not say No.
- Daniel Odame Omenako Junior, "What You Should Know About National Science And Maths Quiz", Peacefmonline, 29 June 2017 .
Quotes about Addy
edit- Prof Addy was a strong advocate of women in science and a champion of the development of plant medicine who helped place the University of Ghana on the map of world scholarship.
- Prof Alexander Nyarko as quoted in [1]
- (Students) take courses in science subjects……The practical component of the program may be dismissed in one phrase: subject to availability of funds…..The fact that finance is the main problem with respect to capacity building in the sciences is acknowledged…Yet, there has been no special initiative to find solutions to the problem. When it comes to science, we in Ghana want to go to heaven but we do not want to die.
