Benjamin N. O. Addison

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Benjamin N. O. Addison was a Ghanaian politician and mayor of Accra Metropolitan Assembly during the Kwame Nkrumah regime from 1963 to 1966. [1]

Accra Metropolitan Assembly

Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is the political and administrative authority for the city of Accra. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has a general assembly which is constituted by about 102 members: two-thirds are elected representatives and one-third are government appointees. The Assembly has ten sub-metropolitan district councils which are subordinate to the general assembly. They perform functions assigned to them by the instrument that sets up the Assembly or delegated to them by the general assembly.

Kwame Nkrumah Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

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References

  1. "AMA mobilizes support for educational institutions in Greater Accra".