Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)

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The Minister for Foreign Affairs is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the country's foreign policy and international diplomacy. The minister is usually one of the most senior members of Cabinet.

The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a lawyer by profession. The ministry is at present combined with other portfolios to form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD^[1] under the government of John Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party.

1 List of Ghanaian Foreign Ministers
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links and sources

[edit] List of Ghanaian Foreign Ministers

Politician	Party	Time frame
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah	Convention Peoples' Party	1957 - 1958
Kojo Botsio	Convention Peoples' Party	1958 - 1959
Ebenezer Ako-Adjei	Convention Peoples' Party	1959 - 1960
Imoru Egala	Convention Peoples' Party	1960 - 1961
Ebenezer Ako-Adjei	Convention Peoples' Party	1961 - 1962
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah	Convention Peoples' Party	1962 - 1963
Kojo Botsio	Convention Peoples' Party	1963 - 1965
Alex Quaison-Sackey	Convention Peoples' Party	1965 - 1966
Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah	military-NLC	1966 - 1967
John Willie Kofi Harlley	military-NLC	1967 - 1968
Patrick Dankwa Anin	Progress Party	1969
Victor Owusu	Progress Party	1969
Patrick Dankwa Anin	Progress Party	1969
Victor Owusu	Progress Party	1969 - 1971
William Ofori-Atta	Progress Party	1971 - 1972
Major General Nathan Apea Aferi	military-NRC	1972
Lt. Colonel	military-NRC	1972 - 1975
Colonel Roger Felli	military-SMC	1975 - 1979
Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi^[2]	military-AFRC	1979
Dr. Isaac K. Chinebuah	Peoples National Party	1979 - 1981
Dr. Obed Asamoah	military-PNDC National Democratic Congress	1982 - 1993 1993 - 1997
Dr. Kwamena Ahwoi	National Democratic Congress	1997
Victor Gbeho	National Democratic Congress	1997 - 2001
Hackman Owusu-Agyeman	New Patriotic Party	2001 - 1 April 2003
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo	New Patriotic Party	1 April 2003 -

[edit] Notes

^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation & NEPAD. Official Website. Ghana government. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
^ Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi was one of several senior civil servants who acted as ministers of state during the short rule of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council between 4 June 1979 and 24 September 1979.