Melody Millicent Danquah was a Ghanaian pilot and the first female pilot in Africa. She was chosen to be one of the first three women to be trained into the Ghana Air Force as pilots toward the end of 1963. She enrolled in the Air Force after reading an advertisement in a newspaper during the tenure of the first President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The president had asked women to apply to be trained as pilots as part of efforts to build an effective armed force and improve the aviation sector She successfully made the grade and underwent subsequent basic military training at the Ghana Military Academy. On 22 June 1964, Flt. Cadet Danquah flew solo for the first time in a de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft, becoming the first Ghanaian to fly an airplane solo. She received her Wings qualifying her as a pilot from Kofi Baako who was the Minister of Defense on the 15th of April, 1965. She ended her flying career in June 1968 and began to do administrative work in the Force. In 1984, she was discharged due to the state of her health. She received a Long Service award and The Efficiency Medal. When she came out of the military, Danquah worked briefly for the World Food Program and National Service Secretariat. At age 60, she entered the Bible School where she earned her Diploma in Bible Studies and Theology and preached in military circles as a lay preacher. She later became a member of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) with Prof. Stephen Adei as the Rector. Danquah had an acting talent while she was pursuing her secondary education at the Wesley Girls’ High School at Cape Coast. She was born to Ghanaian parents – Ibinijah Rexford Addo-Danquah, a Court Registrar and Arbitrator in Larteh and Selina Gyamfi – on January 6, 1937, in Larteh Akuapem. Affectionately called M3, Danquah was the sixth of ten siblings. She passed away on March 18, 2016, at the age of 79. She is survived by her daughter, Professor Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta, a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Ghana School of Medicine & Dentistry and three grandchildren.