EDWARD AKUFFO

ADDO: HIS LIFE AS A

CITIZEN OF GHANA.

A presentation by Athena and

Fareeda
 HIS BIOGRAPHY: HIMSELF
William Martin Akuffo Addo-Danquah also known as Edward
Akuffo Addo is the father of our current president “His
Excellency Nana Akuffo Addo”. He was born on April 26, 1906,
in Dodowa, Accra.
He was a member of the "Big Six" leaders of the United Gold
Coast Convention and one of the founding fathers of Ghana
who engaged in the fight for Ghana's independence. He became
the Republic of Ghana's Chief Justice and later ceremonial
President.
 HIS EDUCATION

• He had his primary education at Presbyterian Primary and Middle

Schools at Akropong. He continued to Presbyterian Training College,
Akropong and Abetifi Theological Training College. In 1929, he entered
Achimota College, where he won a scholarship to St Peter's College,
Oxford.
 HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND TITLES
1940: Called to the Middle Temple Bar, London, UK
1941: Returned to Gold Coast and started private legal practice but was soon caught up in
politics.
1947: Founding Member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC)
1948: One of the "Big Six" detained after disturbances in Accra
1949 - 1950: Member, Gold Coast Legislative Council
1949: Member Coussey Constitutional Commission
1962 - 1964: Supreme Court Judge ( One of three Judges who sat on Treason trial involving
Tawiah Adamafio, Aku Adjei, and three others after the Kulungugu bomb attack on
Nkrumah. Was Dismissed with fellow judges for finding some of the accused not guilty)
September.
 CONTINUATION

1966 - 1970: Appointed Chief Justice in NLC regime.

1966 - 1968: Chairman Constitutional Commission (Commission that drafted the 1969
Second Republican Constitution).
1966 - 1968: Head, NLC Political Commission.
1970 - 1972: President of Ghana in the Second Republic ( Akufo-Addo was a ceremonial
President and had no executive powers as all powers lay with the Prime Minister, Dr.
Kori Abrefa Busia).
 HIS ROLES PLAYED AS A CITIZEN OF
GHANA

Following Ghanaian independence in 1960, Akufo-

Addo was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of
Ghana, and served as Chief Justice of Ghana from 1966
to 1970. In 1970, he became President of the Republic
of Ghana, serving until deposed in a coup d'état in
1972, dying in 1979.
EDWARD AKUFFO ADDO
 HIS FAMILY

Nana Addo Danquah was his only child

His grand-daughter is Edwina Nana Dokua
Akufo-Addo
Adeline Akuffo Addo
 HIS DEATH

He died on 17th July 1779 due to

natural causes in Accra.
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