| John Bogolo Erzuah | |
| Office: | Ghana Ambassador to Ivory Coast |
| Predecessor: | J. K. A. Quarshie |
| Term Start: | 1964 |
| Term End: | 1966 |
| President: | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Office2: | Ghana Ambassador to France |
| Predecessor2: | Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah |
| Successor2: | J. E. Bossman[1] |
| Term Start2: | 1962 |
| Term End2: | 1964 |
| President2: | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Office3: | Ghana High Commissioner to Egypt |
| Successor3: | Cobina Kessie |
| Term Start3: | 1959 |
| Term End3: | 1960 |
| President3: | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Office4: | Ghana High Commissioner to India |
| Successor4: | Nana Kwabena Kena II[2] |
| Term Start4: | 1957 |
| Term End4: | 1959 |
| President4: | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Birth Name: | John Bogolo Erzuah |
| Birth Date: | 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Takinta, Gold Coast |
| Death Date: | 1979 |
| Nationality: | Ghanaian |
| Alma Mater: | St. Augustine's College |
| Occupation: | Diplomat |
John Bogolo Erzuah (1914– 1979) was a Ghanaian diplomat, politician and teacher. He served as a minister of state in 1956, and also represented Ghana in various foreign missions from 1957 to 1966.
Erzuah was born in 1914 at Takinta a town in the Western Region of Ghana. He was trained as a teacher at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast and passed his intermediate bachelors.[3] [4] [5]
Erzuah joined the St. Augustine's College staff after training as a teacher, and he became headmaster of Ghana College, Esiama, Western region.[3] [4] [5]
In 1951, he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for Ankobra.[6] That same year he was appointed ministerial secretary to the ministry of education. He was chairman of the Erzuah committee that was established to review the salaries and service conditions of non government teachers.[7] In 1952, he was a member of the Ghana delegates in the African Education Conference held at Cambridge. He was re-elected as a member of the legislative assembly in 1956 and that same year he was promoted to Minister of Education.[4] In July 1956, he became a minister without portfolio for the Ministry of External Affairs.
Erzuah was appointed Ghana's high commissioner to India in 1957.[3] [8] He served in this capacity for two years. In 1959 he was made Ghana's high commissioner to Egypt.[5] [9] He served in this capacity until 1960. In 1962 he served as Ghana's ambassador to France[10] [11] and in 1964 he became Ghana's ambassador to the Ivory Coast[12] [13] [14] until 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown by the NLC.
In 1979, it was noted that Erzuah had recently died.[15]