BUSIA, KOFI ABREFA

kōˈfē äbrāˈfä boosēˈä, 1913–78, political leader in Ghana. He was educated in Africa and in England and taught sociology in African, American, and European universities in the 1950s and 60s. He served (1951–59) in Ghana's national assembly, where he was opposition leader against Nkrumah. In 1969 he became prime minister when his Progress party triumphed in the elections. Accused of dictatorial rule, Busia was overthrown in 1972. He died in Great Britain.

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books on: Busia Kofi Abrefa  - 14 results

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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996
Book by John E. Jessup; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Conflict Management--History--20th Century--Dictionaries, Military History, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Political Violence--History--20th Century--Dictionaries
...Center Press Series) (1993). Busia, Kofi Abrefa. (b. 11 July 1913, Ashanti...August 1978, Oxford, England) Busia was educated in England at Oxford...head of the National Unity Party, Busia fought the policies of the ruling...
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Anatomy of an African Dictatorship
Book by Yuri Smertin; International Publishers, 1987
Subjects: Ghana--Politics And Government--1957-1979, Nkrumah, Kwame--1909-1972, Presidents--Ghana--Biography
...Sir Alfred, 25 Azikiwe Nnamdi, 9 , 11 , 13 B Baako, Kofi, 39 , 135 BANKHOLE, TIMOTHY, 42 Barka, Ben, 149...Burns, Sir Alan, 36 Burns Constitution, 37 , 41 , 44 Busia, Kofi Abrefa, 56; and United Party, 66 -67; government of...
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Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
Book by Isaac James Mowoe, Richard Bjornson; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Africa--Civilization--Western Influences, Africa--Colonial Influence, Humanism
...O., 175 Brazil, 24 Bronze Age, 19 Broome v. Cassell Co., Ltd. anor , 194 Buakasa, Tulu Kia Mpasu, 104 Busia, Kofi Abrefa, 228 -29 Camels, 20 - 21 Capitalism, 27 - 30 Carrol, K., 237 -38 Cartesian doctrine, 79 , 80 Case-law...
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Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology
Book by David G. Mandelbaum, Gabriel W. Lasker, Ethel M. Albert, Rexford S. Beckham; University of California Press, 1963
Subjects: Anthropology--Bibliography
...Bowen Elenore Smith, pseud. Return to laughter . 1st American ed. New York, Harper, 1954, $3.50. 806. Busia Kofi Abrefa The position of the chief in the modern political system of Ashanti; a study of the influence of contemporary social...
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Liberalization in the Developing World: Institutional and Economic Changes in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
Book by Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, André Mommen; Routledge, 1996
...Cameroon 252-3 ; Ghana 270 , 276 ; Nicaragua 124 , 126 ; Vietnam 81-2 ; Zaire 291 Burns, A. Governor of Ghana 267 Busia, Kofi Abrefa President of Ghana 276 Bustin, E. 291 c Caceres, Sinforiano 192-3 Calla, R. 167 Callaghy, T.M. 271...
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Ghana: The Real Kufuor; A New Biography of President John Agyekum Kufuor-Between Faith and History-Written by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Reveals the Man Behind the Man at the Helm in Accra. Osei Boateng Has Been Reading It
Magazine article by Osei Boateng; New African, February 2004
...Kufuor comes from (the Danquah-Busia tradition), has never been radical...one of his political mentors, Prof Kofi Abrefa Busia (a major pillar of the Danquah...Agyekum Kufuor, his real name is Kofi Diawuo. Kofi is the Akan name for...
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Who Say Africa Is Independent?
Magazine article by Baffour Ankomah, Khalid Bazid; New African, July 2003
Subjects: African Union--Conferences, meetings and seminars, African Union--Political activity, Muluzi, Bakili--Political activity, World Bank
...minister (from 19691972), Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, who admitted in his autobiography...school Mfantsipim in Cape Coast," Busia wrote, "I went home to Wenchi...educational system suffer the "Busia-Syndrome", and thus, weaken...
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No Civilisation Has Developed with a Foreign Language
Magazine article by Ivor Agyeman-Duah; New African, June 2004
Subjects: Publishing industry--Personal narratives
...diplomats have worked in Mexico. For example, I discovered in UNAM that one of Ghanas former prime ministers, Kofi Abrefa Busia, had taught there. This was a surprise because I saw a statue of him in the hall of one of the departments of the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Busia Kofi Abrefa  - 2 results

 
 
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Busia, Kofi Abrefa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUSIA, KOFI ABREFA ko fe abra fa boose a, 1913 78, political leader in Ghana. He was educated...Progress party triumphed in the elections. Accused of dictatorial rule, Busia was overthrown in 1972. He died in Great Britain...
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Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...joining (1959) the army, where he advanced to colonel. In 1972, following a bloodless army coup that overthrew Kofi Abrefa Busia , he became chairman of the ruling National Redemption Council. In 1978 he resigned and in 1979 he was executed...


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