# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alima-mahama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:45:00.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alima-mahama"
name: "Alima Mahama"
slug: "alima-mahama"
description: "Hajia Alima Mahama is Ghana's first female ambassador to the US. She is a lawyer and the former Minister for the affairs of women and children in Ghana under President John Kufuor She was also the Ghanaian Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, appointed to the office by President Nana Akuffo-Addo on 10 January 2017 to 7 January 2021. Hajia Alima also served as the Member of Parliament for Nalerigu/Gambaga constituency and a member of the New Patriotic Party in the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic."
tagline: "Ghanaian lawyer, a politician and former member of Parliament for Nalerigu Gambaga Constituency"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Her_Excellency_Alima_Mahama_(Hajia).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.33750933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اليما ماهاما"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump