List of Ghanaian politicians
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The following is a list of Ghana
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s, both past and present.
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
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Politician
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s, both past and present.
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- Albert AbongoAlbert AbongoAlbert Abongo is a Ghanaian politician and civil engineer. Abongo is from the Bongo District near the city of Bolgatanga, Upper East Region and is a member of the National Democratic Congress and the Member of Parliament for Bongo....
- Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu
- Addy, Mark DiamondMark Diamond AddyMark Diamond Nii Addy was a schoolmaster and politician in Ghana.Mark Diamond Addy, manager of the Accra City Secondary School, launched the National...
- Aferi, Nathan ApeaNathan Apea AferiMajor General Nathan Apea Aferi was a soldier and politician in Ghana. He was a former Chief of the Defence Staff of Ghana. He also served briefly as Foreign Minister of Ghana.-Congo:...
- Aggudey, GeorgeGeorge AggudeyGeorge Aggudey is a Ghanaian politician. He is a member of the Convention People's Party .Running as the CPP presidential candidate in the 7 December 2004 presidential election, he finished last out of four candidates, winning 1.0% of the vote.-References:...
- Ahwoi, KwamenaKwamena AhwoiKwamena Ahwoi is a politician in Ghana who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990–2001 in the National Democratic Congress government, during the reign of Jerry Rawlings. He also briefly served as Minister of foreign affairs in 1997, and was acting minister...
- Aidoo, JosephJoseph AidooJoseph Boahen Aidoo is a politician in Ghana. He is a Member of Parliament with the National Patriotic Party for the Amenfi East parliamentary constituency in the Western Region...
- Ako-Adjei, EbenezerEbenezer Ako-AdjeiDr. Ebenezer Ako-Adjei was a nationalist politician from Ghana. Ako-Adjei is considered to be one of the Big Six in the history of Ghanaian independence. The Big Six are arguably some of the most famous people in Ghana's fight for independence from British rule...
- Akuffo, FredFred AkuffoLieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo was a soldier and politician. He is a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Head of state and chairman of the ruling Supreme Military Council in Ghana from 1978 to 1979...
- Akufo-Addo, EdwardEdward Akufo-AddoEdward Akufo-Addo was a politician and lawyer in Ghana. He was one of the Big Six in the fight for Ghana's independence. He also became the Chief Justice and later President of the Republic of Ghana.-Education:...
- Akufo-Addo, Nana Adda DankwaNana Addo Dankwa Akufo-AddoNana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was one of the founding members of the centrist New Patriotic Party in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights...
- Afrifa, AkwasiAkwasi AfrifaBrigadier Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa was a Ghanaian soldier, farmer, a traditional ruler and politician.He was the head of state of Ghana and leader of the military government in 1969 and then Chairman of the Presidential Commission between 1969 and 1970. He continued as a farmer and political activist...
- Anin, Patrick DankwaPatrick Dankwa AninPatrick Dankwa Anin was a former foreign minister of Ghana in the Second Republic.He died in 1999.He was the first foreign minister to be appointed in the Progress Party government by Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the Prime Minister of Ghana. He served for a few months and was replaced by Victor Owusu...
- Ankrah, Joseph ArthurJoseph Arthur AnkrahLieutenant General Joseph Arthur Ankrah served as the first commander of the Army of Ghana and from 1966 and 1969 as the second head of state.-Early life:...
- Annan, Daniel FrancisDaniel Francis AnnanJustice Daniel Francis Kweipe Annan was a Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana. He is also a former member of the Provisional National Defence Council government which preceded the fourth republic and was once the Chairman of the National Commission for Democracy.-Early life:Daniel Annan was born in...
- Annan, KofiKofi AnnanKofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
- Arkaah, Kow NkensenKow Nkensen ArkaahKow Nkensen Arkaah , the "stubborn cat," was a Ghanaian politician and former Vice President of Ghana during the Fourth Republic. He was also a chief of Senya Breku.-Early life:...
- Asamoah, ObedObed AsamoahDr. Obed Yao Asamoah is a politician from Ghana. Asamoah is the longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under Jerry Rawlings from 1981 to 1997. Asamoah was educated at King's College London and at Columbia University. He was a lecturer in Law at the University of Ghana...
- Atta-Mills, JohnJohn Atta-MillsDr. John Evans Fifii Atta Mills is the third and current President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election...
- Awoonor-Williams, R.A.
- Ayannah, Alhaji
- Amoako, Richard Nana
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- Baffour, R.P.R. P. BaffourR. P. Baffour Ph.D was a Ghanaian academician and the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.-Term as Vice Chancellor:...
- Baah, Kwame, R.M.Kwame BaahColonel Kwame R. M. Baah was a soldier and politician. He was the Ghanaian foreign minister between 1972 and 1975.Colonel Kwame Baah was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs after the government of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia was overthrown in a coup d'état on January 13, 1972. This replaced the...
- Barima, Yaw
- Bernasko, FrankFrank BernaskoFrank George Bernasko was a retired Ghanaian soldier, lawyer and politician. He served as the Commissioner for Agriculture among others in the National Redemption Council military government of General I.K. Acheampong...
- Bilson, John
- Boafo, Sampson
- Boahen, Albert AduAlbert Adu BoahenAlbert Kwadwo Adu Boahen was a Ghanaian academic, historian, and politician. He was an academic at the University of Ghana from 1959 to 1990, since 1971 as a professor...
- Botsio, KojoKojo BotsioKojo Botsio was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician. He studied in Britain, where he became the treasurer of the West African National Secretariat and an acting warden for the West African Students' Union...
- Busia, Kofi AbrefaKofi Abrefa BusiaKofi Abrefa Busia was Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969–72. He was born in Wenchi, in the then British colony of Gold Coast . He was educated at Methodist School, Wenchi, Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, then at Wesley College, Kumasi from 1931–32. He later became a teacher at Achimota Secondary...
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- Danquah, Joseph Boakye (J.B.)J. B. DanquahNana Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah was a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar and historian. He played a significant role in pre and post colonial Ghana. In fact, he is credited with giving Ghana its name...
- Darko, KwabenaKwabena DarkoRev. Dr. Kwabena Darko is an entrepreneur, minister of religion and former politician. He owns the largest privately owned agro-industrial concern in Ghana and is listed in “Who’s Who in World Poultry”...
- Dery, Ambrose
- Dzamesi, Kofi
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- Edumadze, Isaac
- Egala, ImoruImoru EgalaAlhaji Imoru Egala was a former foreign minister of Ghana in the First Republic between 1960 and 1961.Mr. Egala held various cabinet posts under Dr...
- Erskine, EmmanuelEmmanuel ErskineLieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine is a retired Ghanaian soldier and politician. He is a former Chief of Army Staff of the Ghana army...
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- Gambila, Boniface
- Gbedemah, Komla AgbeliKomla Agbeli GbedemahKomla Agbeli Gbedemah was a Ghanaian politician. He was also the Minister for Finance in the Nkrumah government from 1954 to 1961. He was popularly called "Afro Gbede".-Political career:...
- Gbeho, VictorVictor GbehoJames Victor Gbeho is a prominent Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat who has been President of the ECOWAS Commission since 2010. He was Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2001, under President Jerry Rawlings, and he was the Member of Parliament for the Anlo constituency from January 2001...
- Grant, A.G.
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- Hagan, GeorgeGeorge Hagan (politician)Professor George Panyin Hagan , 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...
- Harlley, J.W.K.John Willie Kofi HarlleyJohn Willie Kofi Harlley was a former foreign minister of Ghana. He was a member of the Presidential Commission that ruled Ghana during the military era of the National Liberation Council and the first year of the Second Republic...
- Casely-Hayford, Joseph
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- Jantuah, Franklin Adubobi
- Jantuah, Kwame Sanaa-Poku
- Johnson, Joseph W.S. De-graft
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- Mahama, AliuAliu MahamaAlhaji Aliu Mahama was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He sought the New Patriotic Party's nomination for the 2008 presidential election,, GNA , October 24, 2007. but at the party's convention in December 2007 he received only 6.38% of delegates' votes...
- Mahama, EdwardEdward Mahama-Early life and education:Born in the village of Sumniboma in 1945, Mahama attended Nalerigu Primary and Middle School from 1953 to 1959. He then attended Secondary School in Tamale from 1961 to 1965...
- Mahama, Ibrahim
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- Nikoi, Gloria AmonGloria Amon NikoiGloria Amon Nikoi was the Ghanaian foreign minister in 1979 under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council government. As of 2007, she is the only lady to hold this position. She is also a career diplomat. In addition, she is the widow of Dr...
- Nkrumah, KwameKwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...
- Nyanteh, Kwame
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- Ofori-Atta, WilliamWilliam Ofori AttaNana William Ofori Atta was a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention and was one of "The Big Six" detained by the British colonial government in Ghana...
- Ollennu, Nii AmaaNii Amaa OllennuRaphael Nii Amaa Ollennu was the Chairman of the Presidential Commission and acting President of Ghana during the Second Republic from 7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970.-Early life:...
- Owusu, VictorVictor OwusuFor the rapper with the same birth name, see V.I.C..Victor Owusu is a former Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He has also served as Attorney General and Justice minister as well as foreign minister on two separate occasions....
- Owusu-Agyeman, HackmanHackman Owusu-AgyemanHackman Owusu-Agyemang is the member of Parliament for New Juabeng North constituency in Ghana. He has served as a minister in the New Patriotic Party government in the Fourth Republic of Ghana.-Education:...
- Joseph Owusu-Yaw
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- Saddique, Boniface
- Seinti, Nana Kwadwo
- Spio-Garbrah, EkwowEkwow Spio-GarbrahEkwow Spio-Garbrah is a Ghanaian businessman, diplomat and politician. He is a former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation based in London. He is one of Africa's pre-eminent public servants, and an authority on mass communications who has held several high profile positions in...