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Kofi Abrefu Busia (1913-1978)

Kofi Abrefu Busia (1913-1978), born in Gold Coast, later Ghana, educated in Methodist schools; studied by correspondence with University of London, took bachelor’s (1941), master’s (1943) and doctoral degrees (1947, social anthropology) from Oxford. Professor in African Studies at U. of Gold Coast.

Leader of Ghanaian opposition against founding President Kwame Nkrumah. Fled, became professor at U. of Leiden and fellow at Oxford. Returned to Ghana 1966 after military coup; became prime minister in 1969. In London for medical treatment in 1972, overthrown by military coup in Ghana.

born a member of the royal house of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti, Ghana's largest tribe

Part of the intellectual liberation in Africa has come through the systematic analysis of African institutions by Africans.

Busia's major study: The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of the Ashanti (1951)

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