Busia is a brilliant scholar who failed in politics - Historian
Lawyer Anokye Frimpong, a historian, handed over the impugned judgment against thelate Prime Minister of Ghana,Kofi Abrefa Busia; explains how he ruled two areas, succeedingin one and failing in the other.
The historian explained how Busia went from Wenchi Methodist as a child to Mfanstipim and the Universityof London and Oxford as a distinguished student of anthropology. Lawyer Anokye also guarded Busia's political journey which began in earnestin 1954 when he left his position as a lecturer at theUniversity of Ghana to become the MP for Wenchi. MP Busia became the leader of the National Liberation Movement (NLM), the leader of Osagyefo's political party, DrKwame Nkrumah, before he fled Ghana in 1959 for fear of being arrested under the anti-arrest law. the body. LawyerFrimpong said Busia was a "bitter enemy of Osagyefo DrKwame Nkrumah", despite the two having the same race that saw Nkrumah gravitate West and eventually become Nzema.
Busia fled to the UK, returnedto Oxford as a lecturer, but did not return until 1966, a month after Nkrumah was overthrown by the then National Liberation Council (NLC). He rose to the position of prime minister and head of government in the second country, but in 1972Busia was overthrown by theNational Redemption Council led by Colonel Kutu Acheampong, a soldier who credits Nkrumah with the charismatic movement. as a soldier. "Busia will go down in history as a brilliant scholar who failed miserably in politics," the historian asserted after detailing the wealth policies and the change in the world's tactics that inspired the regimethat killed him. 2023 will mark the 110th anniversary of his birth, the 45th anniversary of his death and the 54th anniversary of the famous victory of the Progress Party he led in the 1969 general elections.
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