It is 40 years now since the death of Ghana’s Prime Minister in the Second Republic, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia. A public lecture, durbar and a book launch are some activities to commemorate the 40th anniversary. GBC24 caught up with the current Chief Executive of the DVLA, Mr. Kwasi Agyeman Busia, who is a nephew of Dr. K. A. Busia. He spoke about why Dr. Busia should be celebrated.
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Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia was educated at Mfantsipim School, Wesley College, University of London and Oxford University. The celebrated academic is noted for being the first African student at University College, Oxford, where he also served as the first lecturer in African Studies. He later became the first African to occupy a chair at the University College of the Gold Coast (now University of Ghana). Dr. Busia was a founder of the influential Danquah-Busia-Dombo political tradition of Ghana, which currently manifests itself as the NPP. On the ticket of the Progress Party (P.P), a precursor of the NPP, he won the Wenchi East parliamentary seat during the 1969 elections and was later confirmed Prime Minister. Aged 65, the politician died of a heart attack on August 28, 1978 in England, while in exile following a military coup d’état that overthrew his government in 1972
