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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 ...
Edward Akufo-Addo 26 June 1906 17 July 1979 (aged 73) Lawyer, chief justice and politician; studied mathematics, politics and philosophy at St Peter's College, Oxford [36] [36] Nana Akufo-Addo 29 March 1944 —
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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 current ...
In 1947 he was a founding member of the pro-independence United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) founded by George Alfred Grant as a combination of chiefs, academics and lawyers, [4] [5] Robert Benjamin Blay, R. A. Awoonor-Williams, Edward Akufo-Addo, and Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey.
He was the brother of Dr J. B. Danquah (a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention).He was the father of Aaron Ofori-Atta (the fourth Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana, a Minister of Communications and Minister of Local Government), Adeline Akufo-Addo (First Lady under the Second Republic), William Ofori Atta (a Minister of Foreign Affairs, Presidential Candidate of the UNC), Dr ...
He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. [10] This made him the first president in the history of Ghana to not have won a consecutive second term. [4] Mahama was again the NDC's candidate for president in the 2020 election, where he lost to Akufo-Addo.
She was appointed Minister of State in charge of Government Procurement in 2017, serving till 2021, [15] under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 5th president of the 4th Republic of Ghana. In the eighth parliament under the fourth Republic of Ghana, Akufo-Addo appointed her as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection.