Augustus Molade Akiwumi

Infobox Politician
name = Augustus Molade Akiwumi


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office = 2nd Speaker of the
Parliament of Ghana
term_start = February 1958
term_end = June 1960
predecessor = Sir Emannuel C. Quist
successor = Joseph Richard Asiedu
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birth_place = Nigeria
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death_place = Ghana
party = CPP
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spouse = Grace Aryee & Helen Kabuki Ocansey
children = Akiwusi,Akiola & Akilano, Akilebu, Akilone, Omotayo, Helen, Ninii
residence = Farrar avenue Adabraka, Accra Ghana
occupation = Barrister / Banker
religion = Christian scientist


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Justice Augustus Molade Akiwumi was a judge and also the second Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.

Early life

Augustus Akiwumi was born in Nigeria but became a naturalised Ghanaian. cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/afrograph/blackbritish.html |title=Black and British: A Family History |accessdate=2007-04-18 |author= Susan Yetunde Goligher |work=Channel 4's Black and Asian History Map |publisher=Afrograph] In 1910 he was sent to live with guardians, a Smith family of Crosby, Cumbria in England. He attended Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset. He proceeded to the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he studied law. He also trained as a banker at the Midland Bank, Ludgate Hill, London, prior to his return to Ghana.

Career

He was called to the bar at the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1921. He was appointed Speaker of the Parliament in February 1958 in the First Republic of Ghana. [cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gh/leadershipdetails.php?id=0003 |title=Rt. Hon. Ebenezer Sekyi Hughes:Speakers of Parliament from 1951 - 2005 |accessdate=2007-04-18 |work=Official website of the Parliament of Ghana |publisher=Parliament of Ghana]

Family

Akiwumi married Helen Kabuki Ocansey, a Ghanaian. She was a teacher educated in England.

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External links

* [http://usedmagazines.com/cgi-bin/otherjpg.cgi?full/LF19600118.jpgPicture on cover of "Life" magazine of January 18, 1960]

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