Kojo Botsio
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Hon. Kojo Botsio | |
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| 5th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana) | |
| In office 1963–65 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Succeeded by | Alex Quaison-Sackey |
| 2nd Minister for External Affairs | |
| In office 1958–59 | |
| Prime Minister | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Succeeded by | Ebenezer Ako-Adjei |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 February 1916 |
| Died | 6 February 2001 (aged 84) |
| Party | Convention People's Party |
| Spouse | Ruth Botsio (née Whittaker) |
| Children | Kojo, Merene |
| Alma mater | Fourah Bay College Brasenose College, Oxford University |
| Profession | Educationist |
Kojo Botsio (21 February 1916 – 6 February 2001)[1] was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician. He studied in Britain, where he became the treasurer of the West African National Secretariat and an acting warden for the West African Students' Union. He served as his country's first Minister of Education and Social Welfare from 1951, as Minister for Foreign Affairs twice in the government of Kwame Nkrumah, and was a leading figure in the ruling Convention People's Party (CPP).
Kojo Botsio attended Adisadel College, Cape Coast and then the Achimota College in Accra. He proceeded to Sierra Leone, where he obtained his first degree from the Fourah Bay University College, the only university in West Africa at the time. He then went to the United Kingdom in 1945 and attended Brasenose College, Oxford University, where he was awarded a postgraduate degree in Geography and Education.[1]
Career
Botsio was a teacher at the St. Augustine's College and the London City Council Secondary School in the United Kingdom. He was also once Vice-Principal of Abuakwa State College at Kibi in Ghana. Some of his students have been Kofi Baako and P. K. K. Quaidoo who were both ministers in Nkrumah's government.[1]
