President Kwame Nkrumah Nationality Ghanaian Succeeded by Alex Quaison-Sackey Preceded by Kwame Nkrumah Party Convention People's Party | Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah Role Ghanaian Politician Preceded by Kwame Nkrumah Name Kojo Botsio | |
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Political party Convention People's Party Died February 5, 2001, Accra, Ghana Education Adisadel College, University of Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford, Fourah Bay College | ||
Kojo Botsio (21 February 1916 – 6 February 2001) was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician. He studied in Britain, where he became the treasurer of the West African National Secretariat and an acting warden for the West African Students' Union. He served as his country's first Minister of Education and Social Welfare from 1951, as Minister for Foreign Affairs twice in the government of Kwame Nkrumah, and was a leading figure in the ruling Convention People's Party (CPP).
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Early life and education
Kojo Botsio attended Adisadel College, Cape Coast and then the Achimota College in Accra. He proceeded to Sierra Leone, where he obtained his first degree from the Fourah Bay University College, the only university in West Africa at the time. He then went to the United Kingdom in 1945 and attended Brasenose College, Oxford University, where he was awarded a postgraduate degree in Geography and Education.
Career
Botsio was a teacher at the St. Augustine's College and the London City Council Secondary School in the United Kingdom. He was also once Vice-Principal of Abuakwa State College at Kibi in Ghana.
Family
Kojo Botsio was married to Ruth Whittaker. They had two children, Kojo and Merene, both barristers.