Nii Amaa Ollennu

Nii Amaa Ollennu , (* May 21, 1906 , † December 22, 1986 ) was a leading politician, lawyer and briefly head of state in Ghana .

jurist

Ollennu was a lawyer and had worked as a lawyer in what was then the British colony of Gold Coast since 1940 . He became a judge and published several books on legal subjects. His area of ​​expertise was land law. He was also active in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches .

Politician

Ollennu was briefly chairman of the National Democratic Party , a small political party during the Gold Coast colony's independence phase. After the first party of Ghana, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), became the Convention People's Party (CPP) under Nkrumah at the instigation of Kwame Nkrumah by splitting off a substantial part , the remaining part of the UGCC joined the NDP under Ollennu Ghana Congress Party together. Here the struggle for supremacy in the new party, which was politically in the Danquah Busia tradition, broke out between Ollennu and JB Danquah , the former chairman of the UGCC.

This power struggle was ended by Ollennu, in which he withdrew from politics in favor of his legal career.

Head of state

Ollennu took over on August 7, 1970 from General Akwasi Afrifa the chairmanship of the Presidential Commission, which acted as the provisional presidential council. With the handover to the elected President Edward Akufo-Addo , his short term ended on August 31, 1970 . At the same time, the military government that had existed since the coup of February 24, 1966 , ended.

family

His daughter Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa , born in 1956, was appointed ambassador to Denmark and non-resident ambassador to Sweden, Finland and Iceland in 2017 . She has siblings from several marriages of her father.

Works

• Principles of customary land law in Ghana , Sweet & Maxwell, London 1962
• Ollennu's principle of customary land law in Ghana (with Gordon R. Woodman), University of Birmingham, 1985, ISBN 0951053000

See also

• History of Ghana