Edward Kojo Duncan-Williams was a

Ghanaian The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Gold Coast (region), Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of ...

politician. He was a member for parliament for the Adaagya constituency from 1965 to 1966, he was also one of the earliest District Commissioners to be appointed in

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Early life and education

Duncan-Williams was born on 24 May 1910 at Akumadan in the

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in the southern part of Ghana and is the third largest of Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of and making up 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of ...

. He had his early education at Government Boys' Primary School in

and Atuabo in the Eastern Nzima Traditional Area of the Western Region, and his secondary education at

Mfantsipim School Mfantsipim School is an all-boys boarding secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana, established by the Methodist Church in 1876 to foster intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth on the then Gold Coast. Its founding name was Wesleyan High Scho ...

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Career and politics

Duncan-Williams was the Assistant Secretary of the Farmers' Association (later named the Cocoa Purchasing Company) in 1952. He was later appointed Supervisor for the Atwima/Nwabiagya district with the headquarters at Abuakwa. He was transferred to

Sunyani Sunyani () is a city and the capital of the Sunyani Municipal District and the Bono Region of Ghana. The city is located about northwest of Kumasi and away from Accra. It is the sixth largest city in the country as of the 2010 census, with ...

and made Provisional District Manager of the Cocoa Purchasing Company. While in Sunyani, Duncan-Williams was elected vice-chairman for the

Brong Ahafo Region The Brong-Ahafo region was a region in central Ghana. Brong-Ahafo was bordered to the north by the Black Volta river and to the east by the Lake Volta, and to the south by the Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions. The capital of Brong-Ahafo is ...

branch of the

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. In 1959, he was appointed District Commissioner for the

district by the then president, Dr.

Kwame Nkrumah Francis Kwame Nkrumah (, 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained ...

and in 1961 he became the Regional Secretary for the Convention People's Party. In June 1965 he was made member of parliament for the Adaagya constituency. He served in this capacity until the overthrow of the

Nkrumah government Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister of Ghana, Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first gover ...

in February 1966.

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Early life and education

Career and politics

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