Encounters with J B Danquah (Part 1) And Slices of Theater By Professor Kwesi Yankah No, not really encounters with J. B. At the peak of J. B. Danquah’s career and political life as a lawyer, statesman, philosopher, nationalist, I wasn’t even an embryo. Born in 1895, J. B. Danquah was 14 years older than…
Encounters with Edward Akufo-Addo By ProfessorKwesi Yankah Here comes the father of President Nana Akufo-Addo, Edward Akufo-Addo, a formidable Big Sixer, who adds significantly to the luster of ancestral relations, encircling the current President of Ghana. Mr. Edward Akufo-Addo, former President of Ghana. Indeed, three of the Big Six are kinship relations of Nana Addo…
56years ago today, February 4, 1965, Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a Ghanaian politician died in Nsawam after 13 months in detention without trial under President Kwame Nkrumah’s preventive detention regime. We reproduce his last letter to Kwame Nkrumah before his unfortunate demise. Dear Dr. Nkrumah, I am tired of being in prison on preventive detention…
