Osei Owusu Afriyie
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Osei Owusu Afriyie | |
|---|---|
| Minister for Health | |
| In office 15 June 1965 – 24 February 1966 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | Joseph Kodzo |
| Succeeded by | Eustace Akwei |
| Minister of Labour and Social Welfare | |
| In office 1961–1965 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | R. O. Amoako-Atta |
| Succeeded by | Susanna Al-Hassan |
| Regional Commissioner for the Ashanti Region | |
| In office 1960–1961 | |
| President | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | R. O. Amoako-Atta |
| Succeeded by | R. O. Amoako-Atta |
| Member of Parliament for Asokwa[1] | |
| In office 1965 – February 1966 | |
| Preceded by | New |
| Succeeded by | K.G. Osei Bonsu |
| Member of Parliament for Kumasi South[2] | |
| In office 1959–1965 | |
| Preceded by | Kurankyi-Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Osei Hyiaman Owusu Afriyie 19 September 1923 Amoafu near Bekwai, Ashanti Region |
| Citizenship | Ghanaian |
| Alma mater | |
Osei Hyiaman Owusu Afriyie (born 19 September 1923) was a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was as a minister of state during the first republic. He served in various ministerial portfolios, some of which include serving as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and also serving as Minister of Health.
Afriyie was born on 19 September 1923 at Amoafu near Bekwai in the Ashanti Region. He began his elementary education at the Bekwai Methodist School from 1929 to 1937 there after he continued at Achimota College now Achimota School in 1938 taking the School Certificate Examination in 1941. After 18 months of service as a Second Division Clerk in the then Education Department he was awarded an Ashanti Confederacy Scholarship to Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone in 1945. There he studied economics, political science and commerce. He obtained his bachelor of commerce degree from King's College then a college of the University of Durham, England in 1948. He was awarded a two-year Scholarship to study journalism at King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne a year later by the Asanteman Council. He worked as a student journalist during that period on the Northern Echo, the Hampshire Chronicle and on the West Africa contributing articles to these newspapers.[3]