| Nathan Apea Aferi | |
| Order: | 16th |
| Office: | Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana) |
| Term Start: | 1972 |
| Term End: | 1972 |
| President: | Kutu Acheampong |
| Predecessor: | William Ofori Atta |
| Successor: | Lt. Colonel Kwame Baah |
| Birth Date: | September 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Mampong-Akuapim[1] |
| Death Place: | Accra, Ghana |
| Nationality: | Ghanaian |
| Profession: | Soldier |
| Allegiance: | Ghana |
| Branch: | Ghana army |
| Rank: | Major General |
| Commands: | Chief of the Defence Staff |
Major General Nathan Apea Aferi (September 1923 – 8 April 2003) was a soldier and politician in Ghana. He was a former Chief of the Defence Staff of Ghana. He also served briefly as Foreign Minister of Ghana.
Aferi served with the United Nations Operation in the Congo now the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the time, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Ghana army. He is reported to have been on guard at Radio Congo when Patrice Lumumba attempted a broadcast in the confusion around the time of Congo's independence in 1960 from Belgium.[2]
Aferi continued in the military on his return to Ghana where he rose to the rank of brigadier. He was promoted Major General and made the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) after the dismissal of Major General Otu, then CDS by President Nkrumah.[3] He was the last CDS to serve before the overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana's first military coup.
Aferi was the first Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in the National Redemption Council military government of General Kutu Acheampong in 1972.[4]
Aferi died on April 8, 2003, in Accra, Ghana.[5] [6]