J. B. Danquah

Joseph Boakye Danquah
Born
Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah

(1895-12-18)18 December 1895
Died4 February 1965(1965-02-04) (aged 69)
NationalityGhanaian
Alma materUniversity of London; Inner Temple
Occupation(s)Lawyer, politician
Political partyUnited Gold Coast Convention
SpouseElizabeth Vardon
Children4, including Paul Danquah
RelativesNana Akufo-Addo (great-nephew)
Kwaku Boateng (in-law)
J. B. Danquah-Adu (grand-nephew)

Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah (18 December 1895 – 4 February 1965) was a Ghanaian politician, scholar, anglophile, lawyer and statesman. He was a politician in pre- and post-colonial Ghana, which was formerly the Gold Coast.

During his political career, Danquah was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah against whom he allegedly committed acts of terrorism in his later life. Danquah was described as the "doyen of Gold Coast politics" by the Watson Commission of Inquiry into the 1948 Accra riots.[1]

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