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Dr. Kofi Busia Sworn in as Prime Minister of Ghana | September 1969

Published on May 19, 2019
Silent footage of the swearing-in ceremony of Dr. Kofi Busia as the first prime minster of Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah.
Busia, a 56-year-old Oxford University-trained sociologist, was sworn in together with a three man presidential commission at State House in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. The three-man presidency was made up of Brigadier Akwasi Afrifa, Mr. J.K. Harley and Major-General Albert Kwesi Ocran, who were former members of the National Liberation Council that had ruled Ghana since the overthrow of Nkrumah in February 1966. Source: Reuters News. Note: Busia would be overthrown in 1972 by a military coup led by Colonel Ignatius Acheampong. He would die in exile in England in 1978. Afrifa along with Acheampong and Akwasi Akuffo, a future military ruler, would be executed the following year after a military uprising led by Air Force Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

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