K a gbedemah biography

Ghanaian politician (1913–1988)

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 June 1913 – 11 July 1998)^[1] was a Ghanaianpolitician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961.

Known popularly as "Afro Gbede",^[2] he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana.^[3][4]

Early life and career

Komla Gbedemah was born on 17 June 1913 in Warri, Nigeria, of Ewe parentage.

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between and Known popularly as "Afro Gbede", he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between and Known popularly as "Afro Gbede", he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah was born June 17 and died 11 July ,was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between.

Komla Gbedemah was born on 17 June in Warri, Nigeria, of Ewe parentage.

Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance Born in Warri, Nigeria of Ewe parentage, Gbedemah was raised between Cape Coast and Keta in the Gold Coast.

Gbedemah, Komla Agbeli (–), Ghanaian business leader, nationalist, and politician, was born on 17 June in Warri, Nigeria.

He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast for his secondary education from 1925 to 1929 and Achimota College from 1929 to 1933.^[5] He became employed as a teacher at a school in the Akuapem District in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

In 1939, he became a Science Master at Accra Academy in Jamestown. Alongside teaching, he engaged in the timber and confectionery business. In 1943, he quit his teaching role at Accra Academy to engage in the timber trade full-time.^[6]

Political career

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