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Minister For Education (Ghana)
This is a list of present and past ministers for education in Ghana. List of ministers See also *Ministry of Education (Ghana) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Minister for Education Politics of Ghana Lists of government ministers of Ghana, Education Education ministers of Ghana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bogolo Erzuah
John Bogolo Erzuah (1914– 1979) was a Ghanaian diplomat, politician and teacher. He served as a minister of state in 1956, and also represented Ghana in various foreign missions from 1957 to 1966. Early life and education Erzuah was born in 1914 at Takinta a town in the Western Region of Ghana. He was trained as a teacher at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast and passed his intermediate bachelors. Career Erzuah joined the St. Augustine's College staff after training as a teacher, and he became headmaster of Ghana College, Esiama, Western region. In 1951, he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for Ankobra. That same year he was appointed ministerial secretary to the ministry of education. He was chairman of the Erzuah committee that was established to review the salaries and service conditions of non government teachers. In 1952, he was a member of the Ghana delegates in the African Education Conference held at Cambridge. He was re-elected as a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's National Party (Ghana)
The People's National Party (PNP) was the ruling party in Ghana during the Third Republic (1979-1981). All political parties in Ghana were disbanded following the January 1972 military coup led by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. When political activities resumed in 1979, there were five parties contesting the elections. The PNP claimed to represent the Nkrumah heritage. In elections held on 18 June 1979, PNP presidential candidate Hilla Limann won 35.3% of the vote and the party won 71 of 140 seats in the National Assembly. Limann won 62% of the vote in a 9 July run-off against Victor Owusu of the Popular Front Party (PFP). He took office as President of Ghana The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current president of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2020 presidential elec ... on 24 September 1979. 1979 establishments in Ghana 1981 dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Ameyaw Akumfi
Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi (born 21 January 1945 in Techiman, Bono East Region) is a Ghanaian academic and politician. Ameyaw-Akumfi was the Minister of Education in the John Agyekum Kufour administration. Early life and politics Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi was born on 21 January 1945 at his hometown Jama-Techiman in his constituency. He began his political career after being elected into parliament in 2008 obtaining over 53.4% of the total votes. Education Ameyaw-Akumfi attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast for his GCE O' and A' Levels. He entered the University of Ghana in 1965 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 1969 and earned his master's degree in the same field a year later. In 1970, he left to study Zoology at the University of Michigan in the United States, where he earned his doctorate in 1972. Professional career Ameyaw-Akumfi has participated in both University of Cape Coast The University of Cape Coast is a public collegiate university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (born 1953) is a Ghanaian politician who was Minister for Trade and Industry from 2014 to 2017 in the Mahama administration. He was formerly Minister of Communications, Minister of Education and Acting Minister of Mines & Energy in the Rawlings administration. He also previously served as Ghana's ambassador to the United States and Mexico. He is a former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) based in London. Spio-Garbrah is Chairman of thAfrican Business Centre for Developing Education(ABCDE), based in Ghana. He has also been a Chairman/CEO of several Pan-African non-governmental organisations, CEO of a church, and has held senior positions in the world of banking and financial services. He serves as chairman for Solarfi, a renewable energy company. Early life Spio-Garbrah was born in Kumasi at the Okomfo Anokye Hospital to former Ghanaian ambassador Britton Spio-Garbrah and nurse/midwife and poet Elizabeth Spio-Garbrah. He began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Amoako-Nuama
Christine Amoako-Nuamah (born 3 February 1944 in Bekwai, Ashanti Region, Ghana) is a Ghanaian scientist and politician who served as the Minister for Environment, Science and Technology (1993–1996), Minister for Education (1997–1998), and Minister for Lands and Forestry (1998–2001) under the Rawlings government. She was educated at the University of Ghana, Legon and was a postgraduate student of the Ghanaian botanist, George C. Clerk (1931–2019). She served as a presidential adviser to the Mills and Mahama governments. She was also the board chairman of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra ... governing council. References Living people 1944 births Women government ministers of Ghana Ghanaian b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esi Sutherland-Addy
Esi Sutherland-Addy is a Ghanaian academician, writer, educationalist, and human rights activist. She is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, where she has been senior research fellow, head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section, and associate director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana. She is credited with more than 50 publications in the areas of education policy, higher education, female education, literature, theatre and culture, and serves on numerous committees, boards and commissions locally and internationally. She is the daughter of writer and cultural activist Efua Sutherland. Biography Born in Ghana as Esi Reiter Sutherland, she is the eldest of the three children of playwright and cultural activist Efua Sutherland and African-American Bill Sutherland (1918–2010), a colonial civil rights activist who went to Ghana in 1953 on the recommendation of George Padmore to Kwame Nkrumah. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Congress (Ghana)
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a social democratic political party in Ghana, founded by Jerry Rawlings, who was Head of State of Ghana from 1981 to 1993 and the President of Ghana from 1993 to 2001. Following the formation of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), which ruled Ghana following the military coup d'état on 31 December 1981, there was pressure from the international community to restore democracy. The NDC was formed as the ruling party ahead of elections in 1992, in which Rawlings was elected president, and in 1996 Rawlings was re-elected as the NDC candidate. Rawlings' second term ended in 2001. The NDC lost the presidency in the 2000 election, and it was not until the 2008 election, that they regained it with John Atta Mills as its candidate. They established the 1992 constitution of Ghana The NDC party symbol is an umbrella with the head of a dove at the tip. The party colors are red, white, green, and black, and the party slogan or motto is " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawlings Government
This is a listing of the ministers who served in Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress government during the Fourth Republic of Ghana. This started on January 7, 1993, after 11 years of military rule by Rawlings. He retired from the Ghana Armed Forces and served a further two democratically elected terms ending January 7, 2001. ''For Rawlings' first military government, see: Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.'' ''For Rawlings' second military government, see: Provisional National Defence Council The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a coup ....'' List of ministers See also * National Democratic Congress References External links and sourcesWhite House (Clinton era) on Ghana [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Sawyerr
Henry Romulus Sawyerr, (25 April 1926 – 8 November 2013) was a Ghanaian politician and surveyor. He was Minister for Education from 1993 to 1997 in Jerry Rawling’s first presidential term of office under the Fourth Republic. In the Second Republic, Sawyerr was Member of Parliament (MP) for Osu-Klottey as a non-party candidate. In the Third Republic, he was again elected MP but gave up the seat to be in Limann's cabinet as Minister for Transport and Communications from 1979 to 1981. Early life and education Harry Sawyerr was born on 25 April 1926 in Abokobi, Accra, in the Ga East District, to Kwao Sawyerr and Fredericka Naa Awula Akua Lokko."Commemorative Tribute to Henry Romulus Sawyerr (a.k.a Harry Sawyerr)" , ''The Hansard'', Official Report for 18 December 2013, Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ransford Ababio
Alexander Ransford Ababio (27 December 1927 – November 2002) was a Ghanaian politician. He was a member of parliament for the South Dayi constituency in the Volta region of Ghana in the first and second parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. Early life and education Alexander Ransford Ababio was born on 27 December 1927 in the Volta Region. He studied medicine at the Mission House College where he obtained his Bachelor of Science and after went to the University of Saarland and obtained his Doctor of Medicine. Career Ababio was a medical practitioner and a farmer by profession. Politics Ababio was first elected into parliament in 1992 Ghanaian parliamentary election as member of the 1st parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He represented again the South Dayi constituency in the 2nd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana in the 1996 Ghanaian general elections. He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. He was the incumbent member of parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grant (politician)
Mary Grant (6 August 1928 – 18 September 2016) was a Ghanaian physician and politician. She was Ghana's first Council of State (Ghana), Council of State member and also the first Wesley Girls' Senior High School, Wesley Girls High School alumna to be a medical doctor. Grant was the third Ghanaian woman to qualify in medicine after Susan Ofori-Atta (1947) and Matilda J. Clerk (1949). She was a relation of Paa Grant, who has been called ''"the father of Gold Coast politics".'' Education Mary Grant had her basic education at Obuasi Methodist School. She had her secondary education from the Wesley Girls' Senior High School, Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast, and went on to become the school's first alumna to qualify as a medical doctor after completing her training in the United Kingdom.Delali Adogla-Bessa"Rawlings, Kufuor, Mahama, pay last respects to Mary Grant", ''News Central'', Citifmonline, 21 October 2016. Career After working in the government health service as a med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Ben Abdallah (playwright)
Mohammed ben Abdallah (born 25 April 1944) is a Ghanaian playwright, "the major Ghanaian playwright of his generation". Director and founder of the Legon Road Theatre, he became head of School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana in 2003. His works portray postcolonial drama that integrates both indigenous and European themes relevant in contemporary African societies. Written in 1972, ben Abdullah's first book, '' The Slaves'', became the foremost non-American dramatic play to win the Randolph Edmund's Award of the National Association for Speech and Dramatic Arts. Ben Abdallah held cabinet positions during the Military government of the Provisional National Defence Council. See also *Ghanaian writers Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Tog ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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