Kwame Baah (politician)

Kwame Baah
Commissioner of Lands and Mineral Resources
In office
February 1972 – November 1972
PresidentIgnatius Kutu Acheampong
Preceded byT. D. Brodie-Mends
Succeeded byD. C. K. Amenu
17th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)
In office
1972–1975
PresidentIgnatius Kutu Acheampong
Preceded byNathan Aferi
Succeeded byRoger Felli
Commissioner for Economic Planning
In office
1975–1979
PresidentIgnatius Kutu Acheampong
Preceded byRobert K. A. Gardiner
Succeeded byJ. L. S. Abbey
Personal details
Born(1938-05-21)21 May 1938
Dormaa Ahenkro, Gold Coast (now Ghana)[1]
Died8 April 1997(1997-04-08) (aged 58)[2]
ProfessionSoldier
Military service
AllegianceGhana
Branch/serviceGhana Army
RankColonel

Colonel Kwame R. M. Baah (21 May 1938 – 8 April 1997)[3] was a soldier and politician. He was the Ghanaian foreign minister between 1972 and 1975.

Colonel (then Major) Kwame Baah was appointed minister for foreign affairs after the government of Kofi Abrefa Busia was overthrown in a coup d'état on 13 January 1972. This replaced the Progress Party government with the National Redemption Council. He was then appointed foreign minister by General (then Colonel) Ignatius Kutu Acheampong in 1972, a position he held till 1975.[4]

  1. ^ Ghana Year Book. Graphic Corporation. 1978. p. 250. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Issues 4144-4159". West Africa. Afrimedia International. 1997. p. 762. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  3. ^ "In Memory of Kwame Baah". Archived from the original on 7 April 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. ^ B. Schemmel. "Foreign ministers E-K - Ghana". Lists of heads of state of government and ministers of various countries. Rulers.org. Retrieved 12 April 2007.