Nkrumah government

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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana.

Nkrumah's first independence government (1957 – 1960)

Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial rule started from 21 March 1952 until independence. His first independent government took office on 6 March 1957.^[1]

Portfolio	Minister	Time frame	Notes
Prime Minister	Kwame Nkrumah	March 6, 1957 – 1 July 1960
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Kwame Nkrumah Kojo Botsio Ebenezer Ako-Adjei	March 6, 1957 – 1958 1958 – 1959 1959 – 1960
Minister for Defence	Kwame Nkrumah	1957 – 1960
Minister for Interior[2]	Ebenezer Ako-Adjei Krobo Edusei Kwame Nkrumah Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah	March 6, 1957 – 1958 1958 – 1958 1958 – 1958 1959 – 1960
Minister for Finance	Komla Agbeli Gbedemah	1954 – May 1961
Minister for Health	J.H. Alhassani	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Local Government	A.E.A. Ofori Atta	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Education	J.B. Erzuah	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Agriculture	B. Yeboah-Afari	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Housing	Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Trade and Labour	Kojo Botsio	March 6, 1957 – 1958
Minister for Communications	Archie Casely-Hayford	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Works	N.A. Welbeck	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister without Portfolio	Lawrence Rosario Abavana	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister without Portfolio	Krobo Edusei	March 6, 1957 – 1958

Nkrumah's republican government (1960 - 1966)

Portfolio	Minister	Time frame	Notes
President	Kwame Nkrumah	1 July 1960 – 24 February 1966
Minister for Foreign Affairs[2]	Imoru Egala Ebenezer Ako-Adjei Kwame Nkrumah Kojo Botsio Alex Quaison-Sackey	1960 – 1961 1961 – 1962 1962 – 1963 1963 – 1965 1965 – 1966
Minister for Defence	Charles de Graft Dickson Kofi Baako	1960 – 1961 1961 – 1966
Minister for Interior[2]	Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah Kwaku Boateng Laurence Rosario Abavana Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah Laurence Rosario Abavana	1960 – 1961 1961 – 1964[3] 1964 – 1965 1965 1965 – 1966
Minister for Finance	Komla Agbeli Gbedemah Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka	1954 – May 1961 June 1961 – ?
Minister for Health	Komla Agbeli Gbedemah Laurence Abavana	June 1961 – ? ? – 1964[3]
Minister for Local Government	A.E.A. Ofori Atta	March 6, 1957 – ?
Minister for Education and Social Welfare	Alfred Jonas Dowuona Hammond Kwaku Boateng	? – ? 1964[3] – ?
Minister for Agriculture	Kojo Botsio	June 1961 – ?
Minister for Works and Housing	Emmanuel Kobla Bensah	? – ?
Minister for Trade Minister for Overseas Trade	Lawrence Rosario Abavana Kwesi Armah	June 1961 – ? 1965 – 24 February 1966
Minister for Transport and Communications	Krobo Edusei	? – ?
Minister for Information	Kwaku Boateng Tawia Adamafio[4] Imoru Egala	? – ? 1960– 1962 1962 – ?
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	Kofi Baako	? – ?
Minister for Presidential Affairs	Tawia Adamafio	1961 – ?
Minister resident in Guinea	Stephen Allen Dzirasa	? – ?
Regional Ministers
Ashanti Regional Minister	Osei Owusu Afriyie	? – ?
Brong Ahafo Regional Minister	Stephen Willie Yeboah	? – ?
Central Regional Minister	Joseph Essilfie Hagan	? – ?
Eastern Regional Minister	Emmanuel Humphrey Tettey Korboe	? – ?
Northern Regional Minister	Emmanuel Adama Mahama	? – ?
Upper Regional Minister	Ayeebo Asumda	? – ?
Volta Regional Minister	Francis Yao Asare	? – ?
Western Regional Minister	John Arthur	? – ?

Kofi Baako (1956)

Some of the information for 1960 - 1966 is taken from Liste der Regierungen Ghanas on the German Wikipedia

See also

• Convention People's Party

References

1. ^ "1957 Govt. of Ghana". Ghana Home Page. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=20501. Retrieved 2010-07-14. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} R.L. Bidwell, ed (1974-02-25). Guide to Government Ministers: The British Empire and Successor States, 1900-72. Routledge. pp. 168. ISBN 978-0714630175. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_4qVQK9EzdgC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=%22Kwaku+Boateng%22+1957&source=bl&ots=DykCBgilyu&sig=0Q7jSHG0QfQNY7sjxruQojPi0aE&hl=en&ei=lYgVTIWhCY-i0gSrofj5CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Kwaku%20Boateng%22%201957&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Article Preview". New York Times Archives (New York Times). May 2, 1964. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20C10FA3B5415738DDDAB0894DD405B848AF1D3. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 
4. ^ "Ghana: Double & Deadly Jeopardy". Time (magazine). 1965-02-19. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940935,00.html. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 

External links

• Picture: 1957 Govt. of Ghana

Preceded by Colonial government

Government of Ghana 1957 – 1966

Succeeded by National Liberation Council, 1966-1969 (Military regime)