Boahene Yeboah-Afari
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Boahene Yeboah-Afari | |
|---|---|
| Brong Ahafo Regional Minister | |
| In office 1958–1959 | |
| President | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | New |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Willie Yeboah |
| Minister for Communication and Works | |
| In office June 1956 – 1957 | |
| President | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
| Minister for Agriculture[1] | |
| In office July, 1956 – September, 1956 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Member of Parliament for Sunyani East[2] | |
| In office 1951–1962 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kwame Boahene Yeboah-Afari 13 November 1920 |
| Died | 22 May 1996 (aged 75) |
| Citizenship | Ghanaian |
| Alma mater | Abuakwa State College |
Kwame Boahene Yeboah-Afari (13 November 1920[3] – 22 May 1996[4]) was an educator and a politician. He served in various ministerial portfolios of the first republic including serving as Ghana's first Minister for Agriculture and the first Regional Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region. He also served as a member of parliament for the Sunyani East constituency.
Yeboah-Afari was born on 13 November 1920 to Nana Yeboah-Afari II, son of a royal of the Dormaa Stool. He had his secondary education at Abuakwa State College completing in 1947.[3]
Career
After his secondary education he returned to the Brong Ahafo Region to help revive the abandoned Dormaa Senior High School (then Dormaa State College) in Dormaa which was founded by one Mr. Oppong and one Mr. Yeboah who were both from Dormaa. He was made principal of the school by the founders when the first principal resigned upon threats from the British Colonial Government District Commissioner (DC) as the District Commissioner insisted the college's establishment was not part of the Government's development plan. Yeboah-Afari started the college again on 8 January 1948 with three students. He served as the school's principal,[5] teacher, bursar and messenger.
He developed close ties with Kwame Nkrumah (who was then the organising secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention) after forming a Dormaa Ahenkro branch of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and served as a secretary of the branch. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had founded the Ghana National College against the will of the then colonial government and when Nkrumah was in Kumasi, Yeboah-Afari met him to discuss the problems his school was facing with the colonial government and to suggest that Nkrumah takes responsibility for the school like he did for the Ghana National College.[3]
