Bafuor Osei Akoto (1904-2002) 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 ...

agriculturalist, traditional ruler and politician. He was the founder and leader of the National Liberation Movement. He was a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

of the

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and resided in the

Manhyia Palace The Manhyia Palace ( Akan: ''Oman hyia'', English: Gathering of the people) is the seat of the Asantehene, as well as his official residence. It is located in Manhyia, Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The first palace is now ...

9 in

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Early life

He was the child of Kofi Owusu Sekyere and Nana Akosua Apea. Before he was chosen as the chief Linguist of the

, he was a mechanic working with the transportation division of F&A Swanzy Company in the Gold Coast.

National Liberation Movement

In 1954, he organized disaffectioned Ashanti members of the

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGC ...

to form a new political party called the National Liberation Movement. The party later became the United Party after a series of mergers with other political parties. In the early 1990s, there was another name change and the party became known as the

New Patriotic Party The New Patriotic Party (NPP; ) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratisation of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghanaian ...

, the current ruling party of Ghana. He spoke against the

one-party state A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system. In a one-party state, all opposition parties are either outlawed or en ...

system introduced by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. These led to his arrest and imprisonment for seven year.

Relations

* Owusu Afriyie Akoto (son) - a

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of Ghana. * Rita Akoto Coker (daughter). Marketing Consultant and author of 5 novels namely: Serwah, the Saga of an African Princess;The Golden Staff; Boarding Time; The Lost Princess and Fate's Promise.

References

Ashanti royalty People from Ashanti Region 1904 births 2002 deaths {{ghana-royal-stub

Early life

National Liberation Movement

Relations

See also

References