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Edward Akufo-Addo JSC (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) [1] [2] was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the "Big Six" leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana who engaged in the fight for Ghana's independence. [3]
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Swalaba, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, in 1944, to Adeline Akufo-Addo and Edward Akufo-Addo, members of the prominent Ofori-Atta family. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His father Edward Akufo-Addo from Akropong-Akuapem was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and ...
Adeline Akufo-Addo, née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta (1917 – 2004), daughter of Ofori-Atta I, wife of second republic president of Ghana Edward Akufo-Addo, and mother of Nana Akufo-Addo; Jones Ofori Atta (1937– 2020), economist and politician, Deputy Minister of Finance, 1969–1972; Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944), politician and 13th President ...
Edward Akufo-Addo: Prime Minister: Kofi Abrefa Busia: Preceded by: Constituency merged: Succeeded by: ... Addae was a Christian, and married with seven children; two ...
Adeline Sylvia Eugenia Ama Yeboakua Akufo-Addo (née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta; 17 December 1917 – 21 March 2004) was a First Lady of the second republic of Ghana as the wife of president Edward Akufo-Addo. She was the mother of president Nana Akufo-Addo. She died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on 21 March 2004, aged 86. [2]
They include; Edward Akufo-Addo who went on to become a Chief Justice of Ghana and the second president of Ghana, Justice Robert Samuel Blay who became the first president of the Ghana Bar Association and Justice Nene Amegatcher who was also once president of the Ghana Bar Association.
Edward Akufo-Addo – founding member of the UGCC and subsequently chief justice and president of Ghana [7] Joseph Boakye Danquah – founding member of the UGCC [8] Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey – founding member of the UGCC [9] William Ofori Atta – founding member of the UGCC [10]
Busia was born a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi, in the Brong Ahafo [disambiguation needed], one of the four Gold Coast Territories, then under British rule and now called Ghana.