Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah Explained

Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah
Constituency Mp:Ahanta[1]
Parliament:Ghana
Term Start:1951
Term End:1966
Successor:Richard Abusua-Yedom Quarshie
Office2:Minister for Labour
Term Start2:1954
Term End2:1959
President2:Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Office3:Minister for Housing
Term Start3:1959
Term End3:1960
President3:Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Office4:3rd and 6th
Minister for Interior
Term Start4:October 1959
Term End4:October 1961
President4:Kwame Nkrumah
Predecessor4:Krobo Edusei
Successor4:Kwaku Boateng
President5:Kwame Nkrumah
Term Start5:June 1965
Term End5:February 1966
Predecessor5:Lawrence Rosario Abavana
Successor5:Anthony Deku
Office6:Minister for Health
Term Start6:1961
Term End6:1963
President6:Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Office7:Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Term Start7:1963
Term End7:1965
President7:Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Office8:First deputy Speaker of Parliament[2]
Term Start8:1965
Term End8:February 1966
President8:Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Birth Date:1900
Birth Name:Emmanuel Ashford Inkumsah
Birth Place:Sekondi, Gold Coast
Citizenship:Ghanaian
Alma Mater:Mfantsipim School

Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah was a Ghanaian chemist and politician. He occupied various ministerial portfolios during the first republic. He was the first deputy speaker of parliament from 1965 to 1966.

Early life and education

Inkumsah was born in 1900 at Sekondi, in the Western Region, Gold Coast (now Ghana). His father was a traditional priest at Ahanta who converted to Methodism.[3] He started schooling at the Sekondi Methodist School and continued at Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast graduating in 1921.[4] [5] [6]

Career and politics

In January 1922, he was employed by Messrs. Miller Brothers Limited, Kumasi as an abstract clerk. In June 1922 he joined Messrs. F. & A. Swanzy Transport for six months as a stenographer typist. He was later moved to Swanzy Trading Company where he worked as a stenographer typist until 1927, when he returned to Sekondi. In Sekondi, he worked with a firm of general merchants; Pickerings & Bethod, for two and a half years. Inkumsah trained as a pharmacist from 1931 to 1934 and in December 1934 he opened his own business; the Asfordinks Drug Store in Sekondi.[4] [5]

While in Sekondi, he joined the Sekondi town council and remained a member of the council for ten years. In 1949 he joined Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) at its inception. Two years later he was elected a member of parliament for the Shama Ahanta constituency on the ticket of the CPP.[7] [5] He was re-elected in the various parliamentary elections that were held before and after the first republic until the overthrow of the Nkrumah government.[8] [9] [10] [11] He was appointed Minister for Labour in 1951 and in 1959 he was appointed Minister for Housing.[12] A year later he was appointed Minister for Interior.[13] In 1961 he was made Minister for Health[14] [6] and in 1963 he was appointed Minister for Information and broadcasting.[15] He served in this capacity until 1965 when he was appointed Minister for Interior[16] and the first deputy speaker of the 1965 parliament, which lasted until 21 February, 1966.[17]

Personal life

Inkumsah was married to the late Florence Inkumsah.[18] His hobbies included shooting.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Ghana Year Book . Graphic Corporation . 22 . 1963.
  2. Ghana Year Book . Graphic Corporation . 27 . 1966.
  3. Book: Rathbone, Richard . 2000 . Nkrumah & the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951–60 . 21. 9780821413067 .
  4. White paper on the Report of the Second report of the Jiagge Commission of Enquiry into the Assets of Specified Persons . Ministry if Information . 1969.
  5. Ghana Year Book. Graphic Corporation . 185 . 1959.
  6. The New Ghana, Volume 7 . Ghana Information Services Department . 29 . 1962.
  7. Michael Eli Dokosi,"How Nkrumah won the 1951 elections to become Head of Government Business from prison", blakkpepper, 10 June 2018.
  8. Kweku Darko Ankra,"1954 Campaigns And Election Results In Ghana (Gold Coast) – Part II", My Ghana Links, 10 June 2018.
  9. News: Ghana Year Book . Daily Graphic . 28 . 1964.
  10. Parliamentary debates; Official Report, Part 2 . Ghana Publications Corporation . 9 . 1965.
  11. Ghana Year Book . Graphic Corporation . 25 . 1966.
  12. Parliamentary Debates; National Assembly Official Report . 1957 . Accra, Government printing department.
  13. Book: Rajasooria, J. P. . 1972 . Ghana & Nkrumah . 27. 9780871961914 .
  14. Book: Steinburg, S. . 1965 . The Statesman's Year-Book 1963: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations . 513. 9780230270923 .
  15. Book: Steinburg, S. . 1965 . The Statesman's Year-Book 1964-65: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations . 483. 9780230270930 .
  16. Book: Steinburg, S. . 1966 . The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations . 469. 9780230270947 .
  17. Book: Ocran, T. M. . Tawia Modibo Ocran

    . Tawia Modibo Ocran . 1978 . Law in Aid of Development: Issues in Legal Theory, Institution Building, and Economic Development in Africa . 137.

  18. News: Aryeh . Elvis . 1 February 1995 . Perpetrators will face the law . Daily Graphic . 14 August 2019.