Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah

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Jantuah (back row, 2nd from right) with the Nkrumah government on March 6, 1957

Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah (born December 21, 1922 in Kumasi as John Ernest Kwame Antoa Onyina Jantuah , † February 3, 2011 in Accra ) was a Ghanaian politician and diplomat .

Career

Jantuah was born in Kumasi and baptized Catholic there in 1934 at the age of eleven . On his 40th birthday he officially changed his name from "John Ernest" to "Kwame Sanaa-Poku"; Jantuah only clarified this fact in 2008 in an open letter. During his law studies in London and Oxford , he met the future President Kwame Nkrumah and joined the United Gold Coast Convention Party (UGCC) in 1948 and the Convention People's Party (CPP) in 1949 . In 1951 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Gold Coast for the CPP and appointed Secretary of State to the Justice Minister and Attorney General . After his re-election to parliament in 1954, Prime Minister Nkrumah appointed him Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, and two years later he was Deputy High Commissioner in London. In 1959 Jantuah was promoted to High Commissioner of the independent Republic of Ghana, in the same year he became ambassador to Paris and was then ambassador to Brazil between 1962 and 1964. Jantuah was a close confidante of Nkrumah and represented him at the funeral of Dag Hammarskjöld and the inauguration of the Argentine President ; In 1965 he co-signed Nkrumah's will as a witness.

After the ousting of Kwame Nkrumah by a military coup in February 1966, Jantuah returned to Ghana the following year; Upon his arrival, Nkrumah's books as well as other socialist writings and Mein Kampf were confiscated. Jantuah continued to be politically active in the following years and supported the CPP in its revival, in the mid-1970s he took part in the People's Movement for Freedom and Justice against the military dictatorship under General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong . After the success of the People's National Party (PNP) in the parliamentary elections in 1979 , Jantuah was appointed Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives in the Limann government, and from October 1981 he was Minister of the Interior. After the coup on New Year's Eve 1981, Jantuah went into exile , under the protection of his friend and convinced Nkrumahist Kojo Tsikata he was able to return and was appointed Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic by Jerry Rawlings at his suggestion . On April 29, 1985, Jantuah was received by Erich Honecker and accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana in the GDR ; he held this post until the end of the German Democratic Republic in 1990.

In 1981 Jantuah was named Grand Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite du Sénégal by Abdou Diouf , and in 2007 by John Agyekum Kufuor as Member of the Order of the Volta . As the last living member of the Nkrumah government, Jantuah died in early 2011 after a brief illness at the age of 88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah: KS-P JANTUAH SETS THE RECORDS STRAIGHT! ( Memento of September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Past Ambassadors (1957-2017). ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / paris.embassy.gov.gh archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: paris.embassy.gov.gh , accessed on September 2, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Government of Ghana: Past and present personnel. ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Ghana's ambassador handed over his credentials. In: Neues Deutschland from April 30, 1985, p. 2 ( online ( memento of the original from September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ztcs.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
  5. ^ One of CPP's founding fathers, KFP Jantuah is dead. In: modernghana.com (February 3, 2011).
predecessor Office successor
Assua Kwasi Sekyim-Kwandoh Ghanaian ambassador to the GDR
1985–1990 		-
personal data
SURNAME Jantuah, Kwame Sanaa-Poku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jantuah, KSP; Jantuah, John Ernest Kwame Antoa Onyina; Jantuah, JE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumasi
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2011
Place of death Accra