John Bogolo Erzuah

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John Bogolo Erzuah
Ghana Ambassador to Ivory Coast
In office
1964–1966
President Kwame Nkrumah
Preceded byJ. K. A. Quarshie
Ghana Ambassador to France
In office
1962–1964
President Kwame Nkrumah
Preceded by Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah
Succeeded byJ. E. Bossman [1]
Ghana High Commissioner to Egypt
In office
1959–1960
President Kwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byCobina Kessie
Ghana High Commissioner to India
In office
1957–1959
President Kwame Nkrumah
Succeeded byNana Kwabena Kena II [2]
Personal details
Born
John Bogolo Erzuah

1914
Takinta, Gold Coast
Nationality Ghanaian
Alma mater St. Augustine's College
Occupation Diplomat

John Bogolo Erzuah was a teacher, a Ghanaian diplomat and a politician. He served as a minister of state in 1956, he also represented Ghana in various foreign missions from 1957 to 1966.

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Early Life and education

John was born in 1914 at Takinta a town in the Western Region of Ghana. He was trained as a teacher at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast and passed his intermediate bachelors. [3] [4] [5]

Career

He joined the St. Augustine's College staff after training as a teacher, and he became headmaster of Ghana College, Esiama, Western region. [3] [4] [5]

Politics and ambassodorial posts

In 1951 he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for Ankobra. [6] That same year he was appointed ministerial secretary to the ministry of education. He was chairman of the Erzuah committee that was established to review the salaries and service conditions of non government teachers. [7] In 1952, he was a member of the Ghana delegates in the African Education Conference held at Cambridge. He was re-elected as a member of the legislative assembly in 1956 and that same year he was promoted to Minister of Education. [4] In July 1956, he became a minister without portfolio for the Ministry of External Affairs.

He was appointed Ghana's high commissioner to India in 1957. [3] [8] He served in this capacity for two years. In 1959 he was made Ghana's high commissioner to Egypt. [5] [9] He served in this capacity until 1960. In 1962 he served as Ghana's ambassador to France [10] [11] and in 1964 he became Ghana's ambassador to the Ivory Coast [12] [13] [14] until 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown by the NLC.

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  2. ↑ "India ... Annual Review". Information Service of India. 1959: 141.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. 1 2 3 "West Africa". West Africa Publishing Company Limited. 1957: 1173.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 1 2 3 "Ghana Year Book". Daily Graphic. 1956. p. 141.
  5. 1 2 3 "The Diplomatic Press Directory of the Republic of Ghana, Volume 2". Diplomatic Press and Publishing Company. 1960: 194.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ "Gold Coast". H.M. Stationery Office. 1953: 135.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ↑ Report of the Education Department (Report). Gold Coast. Education Department. 1954. p. 17.
  8. ↑ "The African & Colonial World and the Indian at Home & Overseas, Volumes 5-6". Independent Publishing Company. 1957.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ↑ "Ghana, Handbook of Commerce and Industry". H.M. Stationery Office. 1960: 31.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ↑ "Ghana Today, Volumes 7". Information Section, Ghana Office. 1963: 3.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ↑ Steinberg, S. H. (1963). The Statesman's Year-Book 1963: The One-Volume ENCYCLOPAEDIA of all nations. p. 514. ISBN   9780230270923.
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  13. ↑ Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 211-212 (Report). United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1964. p. 58.
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