MADAM TINUBU
Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa (circa 1805 – December 3, 1887). Some women have left their footprints in the annals of Nigerian history. One of such women was Madame Tinubu. She was born in the early 19th c. to a poor trading family in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. After a period of business apprenticeship under […]
BROWN, E. J. P.
Emmanuel Joseph Peter Brown (1875-May 1929) was a lawyer, journalist, and nationalist, and an author of talent. He would have merited recognition as an outstanding political leader had he not been outshone by his contemporary, J. E. Casely Hayford. After World War I. Brown and Casely Hayford vied bitterly for leadership of the Aborigines Rights […]
BOAKYE, KWASI
He was born in 1827, and was one of the eldest sons of Fredua Agyeman (as he was then known) by his marriage to a relative of the Atomfohene, head of the Asante blacksmiths. In 1837. Fredua Agyeman, by then enstooled Asantehene as Kwaku Dua I, sent Kwasi Boakye (together with a young royal, Kwame […]
BOAKYE TENTEN
BOAKYE TENTEN He was the son of an okyeame (senior spokes-man) of the Asantehene, Osei Bonsu (ruled1800-24). Through his mother, Birago of Korase, near Kumase, Boakye Tenten could claim descentfrom the Asantehene Osei Kwadwo (ruled 1764-77). He spent his childhood in Kumase, being trained in the responsibilities of the Boakye Yam Panin stool (the spokesman’s […]
BANNERMAN, C. E. W.
Charles Edward Woolhouse Bannerman (October 12, 1884-November 10, 1943) was the first African to become a judge of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast. Born in James Town, Accra, in 1884, he was the youngest of the three sons of Samuel Bannerman, who was himself a magistrate, a district commissioner, and a member of […]
