Krobo Edusei was a Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

ian politician

Politician

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 and a high profile member of Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...

's government.
He was a popular, outspoken and prominent Ashanti activist and at the forefront of the Ghanaian independence movement, galvanising support amongst the Ashantis for Nkrumah's independence movement . He served as Minister without Portfolio, Minister for Transport and Communication and Minister for the Interior under Nkrumah.

After Nkrumah - PNP and Limann

Following the overthrowing of Nkrumah's government, he was imprisoned and subsequently released. He continued to be politically active and very influential as a senior member of the PNP, a party formed from the ashes of Nkrumaist CPP. And when the PNP went on to win Ghana's first post Nkrumah election

Election

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s, he became a powerful figure in Hilla Limann

Hilla Limann

Hilla Limann was the President of Ghana from 24 September, 1979 to 31 December, 1981. Eventually he became a diplomat, and served in Switzerland. Limann, whose original last name was Babini, was born in the northern Ghanaian town of Gwolu in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region to a...

's government.
Following the 1981 overthrow of the Limann government

Limann government

This is a listing of the ministers who served in Limann's People's National Party government during the Third Republic of Ghana. The Third Republic was inaugurated on 24 September 1979. It ended with the coup on 31 December 1981, which brought the Provisional National Defence Council of Jerry...

, Krobo Edusei was again imprisoned, He was released in 1983 and died of complications from diabetes soon after.

Family

Krobo Edusei married three times and had numerous children who remain active in the Ghanaian business world. The more well known of his children include prominent millionaire Ghanaian businessman and ports operator, Yaw Krobo Edusei, Lucy Lamptey, former legal director of the Ghanaian government agency Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT)and Comfort Emden, a real estate entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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 and conservationist

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.