Mabelle

Mabelle Prior is a Swiss Ghanaian/Togolese former broadcast journalist and producer of women's and children's programmes in the 1990s on Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. She is popularly known as 'Ghana's Queen of the Airwaves'.

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Mabelle worked as reporter at Volta Regional Branch of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation from 1996 to 2000. She relocated to Switzerland where she continued to work in journalism for a while before becoming first young black lady on the Federatif Committee of Migration and the first young black lady in the Federatif Committee of Women.

Mabelle Kelso (also spelled "Mabel"; 1883 – 1975), was an American who in 1912 became one of the earliest female maritime radiotelegraph (wireless) operators. She was also the first woman to be issued a radio operator's certificate by the United States government under the provisions of the Wireless Ship Act of 1910. Under her married name of Mabelle Kelso Shaw, she became a Doctor of Chiropractic beginning in 1924.