Kankam Twum Barima

Kankam Twum Barima (28 December 1918 – 1998)[1] was a Ghanaian educationist, diplomat and politician. Barima was a former minister of agriculture of Ghana, he was a member of the Presidential Commission of the National Liberation Council, which came into power through a military coup d'état on 24 February 1966. It overthrew the government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of the Ghana.[2]

Kankam Twum Barima
Minister for Food  and Agriculture
In office
1969 – September 1969
Appointed byAkwasi Afrifa
Preceded byAlbert Adomakoh
Succeeded byKwame Safo-Adu
Personal details
Born(1918-12-28)28 December 1918
Abomosu, Gold Coast
Died1998
NationalityGhanaian
EducationAchimota College
Alma mater

Early life and education

Barima was born on 28 December 1918 at Abomosu in the Eastern region of Ghana to Opanyin Kwadwo and Sophia Aboraa all of Abuakwa.[3][4] He had his early education at Achimota College now Achimota School.[5] He furthered his education at Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained his Bachelor of Arts in Agriculture in 1946[1][4][6] and the Imperial College of Agriculture, Trinidad, from 1948 to 1949.[1] He obtained his Master of Arts in 1952 from the University of Cambridge.[1][6]

Career and politics

In 1949, he joined the Colonial Agricultural Service. Later he was appointed lecturer of Agricultural Economics of the University college of the Gold Coast now University of Ghana where he taught from 1951 to 1955.[7] From 1955 to 1966, he became a Professor of Agriculture, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture,[8] Pro-Vice chancellor and Acting Vice-chancellor of the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[1][5][7] He left the university in December 1967, returned to his home town Kyebi in the Eastern region of Ghana and went into farming.[9]

In 1969 Barima was appointed Ghana's Commissioner (Minister) for Agriculture.[7] He worked on various boards both home and abroad. From 1970 to 1976, he was Ghana's representative on the executive board of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO in Paris, and the Vice President of the executive board (1974–1976).[10][11][12][13] He was appointed director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, in 1972. Barima retired from the University of Ghana in 1983. He was the second President of the executive committee of Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa CODESRIA from 1976 to 1979.[14]

In 1959 he was elected a foundation fellow of the Ghana Academy of learning now Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as a member of the board of governors and chairman of its research committee. In 1963, He was a member of an International mission to advice on the development of a national plan of education of Malawi and he was in charge of the technical and agricultural aspects of the national plan as drawn up by the team which was sponsored by the British Overseas Ministry and USAID. He was a consultant to UNESCO in Agricultural Science and education in 1965; and in 1967 to FAO in Rome, on Rural Sociological Problems of Agricultural development.[1]

Literature

Barima published books and articles which include;

  • The Cultural Basis of Our National Development, (1980)[15]
  • The Genesis of Integrated Rural Development, (1978)[16]
  • Development of Agricultural Education, (1977)[17]
  • Education for Development: Reflections on a Natural Resources Development Approach to Educational Organisation in Developing Countries, (1976)[18]
  • Research to Development

Death

Barima died in 1998.[1]

References
  1. "Pr. Kankam Twum-Barima (1976–1979) / Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa". www.codesria.org. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  2. Kandil, Hazem (6 October 2016). The Power Triangle. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190239206.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-023920-6.
  3. LLC, Marquis Who's Who (1978). Who's Who in the World, 1978–1979. Marquis Who's Who, LLC. ISBN 978-0-8379-1104-5.
  4. Studies in Third World Societies. Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary. 1981.
  5. Twum-Barima, K. (1977). Development of Agricultural Education. Ghana Publishing Corporation.
  6. Sciences, Ghana Academy of (1967). Proceedings of the Ghana Academy of Sciences. Secretariat of the Ghana Academy of Sciences.
  7. Centre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development (1981). Liaison Bulletin Between Development Research and Training Institutes. Development Centre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  8. Kumasi, Ghana Commission of Enquiry, University of Science and Technology (1966). Report.
  9. Ghana Commercial and Industrial Bulletin. Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1970.
  10. Unesco (1975). The Unesco Courier. UNESCO.
  11. Board, Unesco Executive (1976). Summary records (in French). Unesco.
  12. Unesco Chronicle. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 1975.
  13. The World in the Classroom. Indian National Commission for UNESCO. 1971.
  14. Codesria Bulletin. Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa. 2002. ISBN 978-2-7068-1472-3.
  15. Twum-Barima, K. (1985). The Cultural Basis of Our National Development. Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  16. Twum-Barima, K. (1978). The Genesis of Integrated Rural Development. Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research, University of Ghana.
  17. Twum-Barima, K. (1977). Development of Agricultural Education. Ghana Publishing Corporation.
  18. Twum-Barima, K. (1976). Education for Development: Reflections on a Natural Resources Development Approach to Educational Organisation in Developing Countries. Waterville Publishing House.
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