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505:"He was argumentative and active in childhood teenage years. Everyone said he had to be a lawyer, and he looked forward to being one. On one occasion when elders of the village had to settle a dispute between his father and the owner of an adjoining land who had uprooted plants demarcating boundaries in an effort to trespass onto their land, the arbitrators planned to otherwise demarcate the portion of the boundary where the plants had been uprooted, but he suggested that they should go over the entire boundary in case the neighbour intended to uproot some more. The elders congratulated him for making a clever suggestion that would forestall similar disputes in the future. He was celebrated as a budding lawyer. Later, he also ruled against his mother in a dispute between her and one of his father’s two daughters by his father's first wife. His mother expected partisanship from him, but she did not get it. His fairness was appreciated, although certainly not by his mother." 648:. The speculation was undoubtedly fuelled by some suggestions in the press that, given the Akan-versus-Ewe schism demonstrated by the results of the elections, it was advisable for Dr. Busia to appoint him to his cabinet. Even now he is often labelled a Danquah-Busia offshoot. Admittedly, this is also founded on the fact that he was the General Secretary of the United National Convention (UNC), led by a veteran Danquah-Busia politician, Mr. William Ofori Atta (Paa Willie), and subsequently the General Secretary of the All People's Party (APP), formed by the merger of the UNC with the Popular Front Party (PFP) in 1981, under the leadership of Mr. 27: 100: 734:, which he gives an account of his life and struggles within the Gold Coast through colonial rule and fight for independence and the future rivalry between the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) led by Dr. Danquah and other relevant events in the Ghana's history 665:
In 1982, he was appointed the Secretary for Foreign Affairs by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) headed by Flt. Lt. Rawlings. After Ghana went back into multi party democracy in 1993 through his party head by Jerry Rawlings, he was maintained in that role as Minister for Foreign Affairs
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by just 2 votes. In 2006, he lost his chairmanship position in the party. Not long after the defeat, he later resigned from the party. Asamoah was accused by his party members and other political parties of stealing a huge sum of money from the coffers of the NDC, which he had reported lost from his
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Asamoah's active involvement in politics began 1966 after Ghana's first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. He served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1968, and also the Consultative Assembly of 1978, in both assemblies the charge was to draft new constitutions following the period
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where he earned a bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) with honours in 1960. He also enrolled at the Middle Temple Inn of Court for the professional qualification. While at the university, he also became a member of the Middle Temple Inn of Court. Three years went by soon enough, and he graduated, took the
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in 2008, he declared that he never intended to run for the presidency and would not seek the Presidency but instead work to win victory for his party in that year's national elections. In October 2011, Dr. Obed Asamoah and his Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) re-joins the National Democratic Congress
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During his secondary school years in Achimota he had an eye opening event into the political world as there was the fight for independence in the midst of all the colonial rule and political disputes. He grew up to become a political figure in Ghana, from being a member of the constituent assembly,
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constituency, from 1969 to 1972, during the 2nd Republic of Ghana serving as the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. Asamoah's Ashanti lineage gave rise to misinterpretations of his political alliances and sympathies during this period. An example was when it fuelled speculation after the 1969
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His childhood inclination for law eventually won the race and he became a lawyer. When he was a student at Columbia Law School, he developed a friendship with one Reginald Bannerman, who, together with Justice Bruce-Lyle and him, later formed the legal partnership of Bruce-Lyle, Bannerman, and
718:. Obed Asamoah's family connection with Ejisu continues in exchanges of visits and attendance at funerals by both sides. Asamoah is married to Dr. Yvonne Asamoah, an African American from Syracuse, New York. Together they have a daughter and two sons. He currently resides in Accra, Ghana. 674:
Prior to leaving the foreign Affairs ministry and being appointed to serve as Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice, he had acted in that role from 1993 to 1997 under Jerry Rawlings. He served in this role from 1997 till his party left public office in January 2001.
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When he resigned from the University of Ghana in 1969, he worked as a partner in this firm until he was appointed a Secretary (Minister) in the Rawlings government in 1982. His legal association with Reginald Bannerman started when they were both pupils in the law chambers of
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Asamoah was a key figure and instrumental in the formation and growth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 1993 ahead of the 1993 Ghanaian elections as Ghana was going back into multi party democracy. In 2002, Asamoah replaced Rawlings as head of the opposition
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Under the guidance of his elder brother, Asamoah passed the Common Entrance Examination in 1949, after primary school education. Then, he had to undergo an interview process with the officials of the secondary school along with the other pupils from the
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and due to that makes him the longest-serving Foreign Affairs Minister as he served in that role from 1982 till 1997, when he was fully reappointed to serve as Attorney General and Minister for Justice.
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on 6 February 1936. His mother, was the second wife of his father following the death of his first wife, who bore him two girls. His mother was married young after being spirited out of
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which won massively in Ashanti and other Akan areas of Ghana. He had, however, won a seat in the Volta Region on the ticket of the National Alliance of Liberals (NAL), led by
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member of parliament, Minister of foreign affairs, Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice and the chairman of the National Democratic Congress.
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bedroom in 2004. On 28 August 2006, he and other politicians, most of whom also resigned from the NDC, launched a new political party, the
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Asamoah's maternal relatives now inhabit Donoaso in Ejisu, whose chief today is Nana Okyere Baffour II and a relation of his. The
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in Ashanti. She was the daughter of an Ejisu chief who married a woman taken from Likpe during the Ashanti invasions of the
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Asamoah being a avid reader and legal academic has authored several publications and books. He is the author of
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He was born the tenth child of William Kofi Asamoah and Monica Akosua Asamoah, farmers of Bala in the
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Asamoah returned to Ghana where he entered into academia in 1965, He became a lecturer in law at the
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He took the O' level Latin in 1955, and proceeded to Britain in 1956 to complete the sixth form at
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Democracy & Development: Quarterly Journal of the Centre for Democracy & Development
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The Legal Significance of the Declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations
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The Legal Significance of the Declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations
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in the latter part of the First Republic and President of Ghana in the Second Republic.
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in 1967. His JSD thesis was on the legal significance of the declarations of the
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The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013): The Experience of a Non-Conformist
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The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013) The Experience of a Non-Conformist
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African Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance
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Salih, M. A. Mohamed; Ahmad, Abdel Ghaffar Muhammad (20 February 2003).
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The Political History of Ghana; The experience of a Non-Conformist
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elections that he had defected to the Progress Party, led by Dr.
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List of MPs elected in the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election
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Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly: Official Report
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Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice
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Kwamena Ahwoi
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