Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah

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

Ashford Emmanuel Inkumsah
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Ahanta[1]
In office
1951–1966
Succeeded byRichard Abusua-Yedom Quarshie
Minister for Labour
In office
1954–1959
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Minister for Housing
In office
1959–1960
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
3rd and 6th
Minister for Interior
In office
October, 1959 – October, 1961
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byKrobo Edusei
Succeeded byKwaku Boateng
In office
June, 1965 – February, 1966
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byLawrence Rosario Abavana
Succeeded byAnthony Deku
Minister for Health
In office
1961–1963
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Minister for Information and Broadcasting
In office
1963–1965
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
First deputy Speaker of Parliament[2]
In office
1965 – February 1966
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Personal details
Born
Emmanuel Ashford Inkumsah

1900
Sekondi, Gold Coast
CitizenshipGhanaian
Alma materMfantsipim School

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]

References
  1. "Ghana Year Book". Graphic Corporation. 1963: 22. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Ghana Year Book". Graphic Corporation. 1966: 27. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Rathbone, Richard (2000). Nkrumah & the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951-60. p. 21. ISBN 9780821413067.
  4. White paper on the Report of the Second report of the Jiagge Commission of Enquiry into the Assets of Specified Persons (Report). Ministry if Information. 1969.
  5. "Ghana Year Book". Graphic Corporation. 1959: 185. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "The New Ghana, Volume 7". Ghana Information Services Department. 1962: 29. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  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. "Ghana Year Book". Daily Graphic. 1964. p. 28.
  10. "Parliamentary debates; Official Report, Part 2". Ghana Publications Corporation. 1965: 9. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "Ghana Year Book". Graphic Corporation. 1966: 25. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "Parliamentary Debates; National Assembly Official Report". Accra, Government printing department. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. Rajasooria, J. P. (1972). Ghana & Nkrumah. p. 27. ISBN 9780871961914.
  14. Steinburg, S. (1965). The Statesman's Year-Book 1963: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations. p. 513. ISBN 9780230270923.
  15. Steinburg, S. (1965). The Statesman's Year-Book 1964-65: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations. p. 483. ISBN 9780230270930.
  16. Steinburg, S. (1966). The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations. p. 469. ISBN 9780230270947.
  17. Ocran, T. M. (1978). Law in Aid of Development: Issues in Legal Theory, Institution Building, and Economic Development in Africa. p. 137.
  18. Aryeh, Elvis (1995-02-01). "Perpetrators will face the law". Daily Graphic. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
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