Nasira Afrah Gyekye

Nasira Afrah Gyekye is a Ghanaian public administrator and politician born on 10 June 1989 in Drobonso in the Ashanti Region, who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Sekyere Afram Plains constituency. A member of the National Democratic Congress and a holder of two degrees from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, she is the first woman in the constituency's parliamentary history to win the Sekyere Afram Plains seat and one of the younger MPs in the Ninth Parliament.

Education

Gyekye studied public administration and governance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the institution, and subsequently returned for postgraduate study, completing a Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy from GIMPA. Her academic formation at one of Ghana's leading public sector management institutions gave her a dual grounding in governance systems and the international relations frameworks that inform parliamentary engagement with foreign policy and development cooperation issues.

Political career

She won the NDC's parliamentary primaries for Sekyere Afram Plains in May 2023 with 211 votes, securing the party's nomination. In December 2024, she won the constituency seat and assumed office on 7 January 2025. The Sekyere Afram Plains constituency is located in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Ashanti Region, a constituency that extends into the farming and forest fringe communities along the northern boundary of the Ashanti Region toward the Afram Plains area, where agriculture and limited rural infrastructure define the constituency's primary development challenges. Her victory as the first female representative of the constituency marked a historic first in the seat's parliamentary history, a milestone recognised by constituency youth organisations who commended Speaker Alban Bagbin for appointing her to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Youth Forum, a prestigious international parliamentary youth engagement platform.

Political Legacy

Nasira Afrah Gyekye's dual GIMPA degrees in public administration and international relations, her position as the first female MP for Sekyere Afram Plains, and her IPU Youth Forum participation give her first parliamentary term an international dimension and a historic constituency significance that her youth and academic formation are well placed to sustain.