CPP Politicians

Kojo Armah (27 November 1945 – 4 May 2014) was a Ghanaian diplomat, lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Convention People’s Party and a former Member of Parliament for the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira constituency in the Western Region. He was also an educationist and linguist. He represented the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira constituency on two separate occasions, from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to …

Nathaniel Azarco Welbeck (1915–1972) was a Ghanaian politician and a diplomat. He was a member of the Convention People’s Party and minister of state in the first republic. He was briefly resident minister of Ghana in Guinea and also resident minister of Ghana in Congo. Early life and education Welbeck was born at Cape Coast on 25 September 1915 to Madam Adwoa …

Moses Amadu Yahaya is a Ghanaian building technician, politician and was a Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the Convention Peoples’ Party. Professional life Yahaya worked as a development worker for the Tolon-Kumbungu District of the Northern Region. From 1996 to 2006 he worked with the international NGO Ghanaian Danish Community Programme …

Alex Quaison-Sackey (9 August 1924 – 21 December 1992) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served during the first and third republics. He was the first black African to serve as president of the United Nations General Assembly. Early life and education Quaison-Sackey was born at Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. He received his secondary education in Ghana at Mfantsipim …

Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah (21 December 1922 – 3 February 2011), originally known as John Ernest Kwame Antoa Onyina Jantuah, was a Ghanaian politician, lawyer and diplomat. He was the last survivor from the first all-African cabinet set up by Kwame Nkrumah in the Gold Coast prior to independence. Early life and education Jantuah was born on 21 December 1922 at Kejetia, a suburb of Kumasi, …

Professor George Panyin Hagan (born 1938), is a prominent academic and politician in Ghana. Early life and education George Hagan was born in Accra in 1938. He had his basic education in Accra, Koforidua, Sekondi and Kumasi because his parents, civil servants, were being transferred. His secondary education was at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra and sixth form (college) at St. Augustine’s …

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 June 1913 – 11 July 1998) was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana’s Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961. Known popularly as “Afro Gbede”, he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana. Early life and career Komla Gbedemah was born on 17 June 1913 in Warri, Nigeria, of Ewe parentage. He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast for his secondary …

Alhaji Imoru Egala (5 December 1916 – 1 April 1981) was a Ghanaian politician and educationist. He held various positions in government in the Gold Coast and after independence of Ghana. He was the foreign minister of Ghana in the First Republic between 1960 and 1961. Work and politics Minister of state (Nkrumah Government) He was a member of the Convention People’s …

Archibald “Archie” Casely-Hayford (1898 – 20 August 1977) was a British-trained Ghanaian barrister and politician, who was involved in nationalist politics in the former Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). Having joined the Convention People’s Party (CPP), in 1951 he was elected Municipal Member for Kumasi and was appointed by Kwame Nkrumah Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the government …

Kwaku Boateng (c. 1926 – 1 May 2006) was a Ghanaian politician and barrister who was a state minister in the First Republic. Early life and education Kwaku Boateng was born to Opanin Acheampong and Madam Anima Acheampong of Old Tafo in Akyem Abuakwa, Gold Coast. He started schooling at the Old Tafo Primary School and continued at …