Kojo Botsio

Hon.
Kojo Botsio
5th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)
In office
1963–65
PresidentKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byKwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byAlex Quaison-Sackey
2nd Minister for External Affairs
In office
1958–59
Prime MinisterKwame Nkrumah
Preceded byKwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byEbenezer Ako-Adjei
Personal details
Born21 February 1916
Died6 February 2001(2001-02-06) (aged 84)
Accra, Ghana
NationalityGhana Ghanaian
Political partyConvention People's Party
SpouseRuth Botsio (née Whittaker)
ChildrenKojo, Merene
Alma materFourah Bay College
Brasenose College, Oxford University
ProfessionEducationist

Kojo Botsio (21 February 1916 – 6 February 2001)[1] was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician. He studied in Britain, where he became the treasurer of the West African National Secretariat and an acting warden for the West African Students' Union. He served as his country's first Minister of Education and Social Welfare from 1951, as Minister for Foreign Affairs twice in the government of Kwame Nkrumah, and was a leading figure in the ruling Convention People's Party (CPP).

  1. ^ "Kojo Botsio is Dead". GhanaWeb. 7 February 2001. Retrieved 4 May 2007.