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Kwaku Baprui Asante, has passed away.
not yet established—but a family member who spoke with Citi News said the family
will come out with a statement soon.
Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to
Ghana’s First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and served under a number of Heads of
States in Ghana.
He also served as the Principal Secretary at African Affairs
Secretariat from 1960 to 1966.
He became Ghana’s Ambassador to Switzerland and the United
Nations Offices in Geneva and the UN establishment in Vienna, and also the
Ambassador to Australia from 1967-72.
He also served as the Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and
the European Economic Community from 1976-1978.
Life
in politics
K.B. Asante retired from the Civil Service in 1978 to form
the Social Democratic Front to contest the 1979 elections where his party won
three parliamentary seats in those elections.
He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional
National Defence Council (PNDC) administration in 1982 and later Secretary for
Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.
Education
K.B. Asante attended Achimota School where he later taught
mathematics from 1945 to 48 before proceeding to Durham University in Britain,
where he obtained a BSc Mathematics in 1952.
He also became a member of the Institute of Statisticians in
1953, before again returning to Achimota College, where he continued teaching
mathematics from 1953 to 1955.
