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278:'s Tribunal in Kyebi. Following the influence of his brother, Danquah was appointed as the assistant secretary of the Conference of Paramount Chiefs of the Eastern Province, which was later given statutory recognition to become the Eastern Provincial Council of Chiefs. His brilliance influenced his brother to send him to
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Danquah stood as a presidential candidate against
Nkrumah in April 1960 but lost the election. On 3 October 1961, Danquah was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act, on the grounds of involvement with plans to subvert the CPP government and kill Nkrumah. He was released on 22 June 1962. He was
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as a philosophy student. He earned his B.A. degree in 1925, winning the John Stuart Mill
Scholarship in the Philosophy of Mind and Logic. He then embarked on a Doctor of Philosophy degree, which he earned in two years with a thesis entitled "The Moral End as Moral Excellence". He became the first
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was invited to be the new party's general secretary. In 1948, following a boycott of
European imports initiated by a chief in Accra and subsequent rioting in Accra, Danquah was one of "the big six" (the others being Nkrumah, Akufo-Addo, Obetsebi-Lamptey,
454:(1944). The latter book demonstrated the compatibility of African religion with Christianity, and is considered a "milestone" for African Protestants looking for ways to reclaim their African heritage. He had no training as a theologian.
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Danquah went into private legal practice upon his return to Ghana in 1927. In 1929 he helped J. E. Casely
Hayford found the Gold Coast Youth Conference (GCYC) and was Secretary General from 1937 to 1947. In 1931, Danquah established
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331:, daughter of prominent barrister Francis Dove. She became Danquah's first wife in 1933, bearing him a son. Danquah later married Elizabeth Vardon. In 1935, he became an executive member of the
267:. On successful completion of his standard seven examinations in 1912, he was employed by Vidal J. Buckle, a barrister-at-law in Accra, as a clerk, a job that aroused his interest in law.
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in 1946 and actively pursued independence legislation for the middle Akan belt of the Gold Coast. In 1947 he was a founding member of the pro-independence
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is "a political think-tank of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP)" in Ghana. It was set up in commemoration of his work and to promote his ideas posthumously.
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against whom he allegedly committed acts of terrorism in his later life. Danquah was described as the "doyen of Gold Coast politics" by the
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politician, scholar, anglophile, lawyer and statesman. He was a politician in pre- and post-colonial Ghana, which was formerly the
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601:Timothy Ngnenbe (4 August 2020).
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