Boahene Yeboah-Afari

Boahene Yeboah-Afari
Brong Ahafo Regional Minister
In office
1958–1959
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Preceded byNew
Succeeded byStephen Willie Yeboah
Minister for Communication and Works
In office
June 1956 – 1957
PresidentDr. Kwame Nkrumah
Minister for Agriculture[1]
In office
July, 1956 – September, 1956
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Member of Parliament for Sunyani East[2]
In office
1951–1962
Personal details
Born
Kwame Boahene Yeboah-Afari

(1920-11-13)13 November 1920
Gold Coast
Died22 May 1996(1996-05-22) (aged 75)
CitizenshipGhanaian
Alma materAbuakwa State College

Kwame Boahene Yeboah-Afari (13 November 1920[3] – 22 May 1996[4]) was an educator and a politician. He served in various ministerial portfolios of the first republic including serving as Ghana's first Minister for Agriculture and the first Regional Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region. He also served as a member of parliament for the Sunyani East constituency.

  1. ^ "GHANA'S CABINET". Crisis. USA: The Crisis Publishing Company. April 1957. p. 204. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Parliamentary debates; Official Report, Part 1". Googlebooks. Ghana Publications Corporation: iv. 1960.
  3. ^ Tetteh, Ransford (2 September 2010). "B. YEBOAH-AFARI- The unsung hero of Brong Ahafo Region". Daily Graphic. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  4. ^ West Africa. West Africa Publishing Company Limited. 1996.