Krobo Edusei (26 December 1914 – 13 February 1984) was a

Ghanaian 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 To ...

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and a high-profile member of Kwame Nkrumah's government. He was a popular, outspoken and prominent Ashanti activist and at the forefront of the Ghanaian independence movement, galvanising support amongst the Ashantis for Nkrumah's independence movement. He served as Minister without Portfolio, Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Transport and Communication and Minister for the Interior under Nkrumah.

After Nkrumah - PNP and Limann

Following the overthrow of Nkrumah's government, Edusei was imprisoned and subsequently released. He continued to be politically active and very influential as a senior member of the

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(PNP), a party formed from the ashes of Nkrumaist CPP; and when the PNP went on to win Ghana's second (the first was won by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia) post-Nkrumah

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s, Edusei became a powerful figure in

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's government. Following the 1981 overthrow of the

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, Edusei was again imprisoned, He was released in 1983 and died of complications from

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soon after.

Family

Krobo Edusei married three times and had numerous children who remain active in the Ghanaian business world. The more well known of his children include prominent millionaire Ghanaian businessman and ports operator, Yaw Krobo Edusei, Lucy Lamptey, former legal director of the Ghanaian government agency Social Security and National Insurance Trust, property entrepreneur and former Coca-Cola executive, Comfort Emden and Catherine Krobo Edusei, entrepreneur, owner and CEO of the Eden Tree brand.

References

1914 births 1983 deaths Ghanaian MPs 1954–1956 Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965 Interior ministers of Ghana Communications ministers of Ghana Transport ministers of Ghana Agriculture ministers of Ghana Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians Ghanaian independence activists {{ghana-politician-stub