Timothy Ansah

Ansah was born on 4 September 1919 at Axim, a town in the Western Region of Ghana.^[2] He had his early education at York Hall School in Axim. He later proceeded to Wesley College, Achimota School and King's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he pursued a bachelor's degree program in History and pursued a post graduate course in Diploma of Education. He won his Cambridge Blue as an athlete for the Cambridge University competing against athletes from the University of Oxford for three years.^[3][4][5]

Ansah returned to Ghana in 1950 and took up a teaching appointment at his alma mater; Wesley College. There, he taught Music and History.^[5] He later moved to Fijai Secondary School and in January 1957 he was appointed the assistant headmaster of the School.^[4] He served in that capacity until 1960 when he was appointed headmaster for the Kwame Nkrumah Secondary School (was later Axim Secondary but now Nsein Senior High School).^[5][6][7] He entered parliament in June 1965 representing the Tarkwa-Aboso constituency on the ticket of the Convention People's Party.^[7][8] He remained in parliament until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown. He remained headmaster of Nsein Senior High School until 1974.^[9]

His hobbies included listening to music, writing songs and African studies.^[7] He composed Ghanaian patriotic songs such as Momoane Beyennzo in Nzema and Dzin Pa Sen Ahonya.^[9] He also participated in the contest for the selection of the National Anthem.^[9] He died on Sunday, 22 June 2008.^[9]

The Timothy Ansah Memorial Foundation Scholarships, a scholarship offered to students from the Western Region is named is his honour.^[10]

Nsein Senior High School hold the Timothy Ansah Lectures annually in his honour.^[11]

Kundum: festival of the Nzemas and Ahantas of the Western Region of Ghana (1999): ISBN 9988002211^[12][13][14]

• List of MPs elected in the 1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election