Meet Ghanaian statesman who held two ministerial positions under Kwame Nkrumah regime, Tawiah Adamafio

Tawiah Adamafio, born Joseph Tawiah Adams, but for the principles of Kwame Nkrumah who believe that all foreign names and the so called Christian names were all names of the slave master and therefore as a black person you should not keep carrying the names of your slave master who hated you so much.

Kwame Nkrumah himself was called Francis, he dropped the Francis and picked up a stronger African name Osagyefo Kwame Nwia Nkrumah.

Tawiah Adamafio was born in Ghana and he was the information and broadcasting minister for Kwame Nkrumah for 2 years between 1960 and 1962.

He was a member of Convention Peoples Party (CPP) and he ran to become the general secretary and in 1960 he was appointed the information and broadcasting minister by Kwame Nkrumah himself.

He was a man who spoke so well and spoke a number of languages articulately.

He was a minister for presidential affairs concurrently as the minister for information and broadcasting, he held two ministerial positions at a go.

Kwame Nkrumah trusted him so much, he was aware of every movement made by him, he eventually spent all his time with him.

Tawiah Adamafio knew everything about Kwame Nkrumah

Nkrumah didn’t get to trust him one day they came from far, worked together in the CPP and he got to trust him from the way he worked audaciously, diligently and was quite affable with everything he laid his hands on.

He was a close associate of Kwame Nkrumah but their friendship fell apart on 1st August 1962 after the Kulungugu bombing, Nkrumah was coming from the Upper Volta at that time now called Burkina Faso (the land of the upright).

After the bombing Nkrumah accused Tawiah Adamafio that he was the one who linked the information and also fingered Ako Adjei who is also part the Big Six, the foreign minister and Horacio Kofi Prat the Executive Secretary of Convention Peoples Party (CPP) of this assassination plot.

They were locked up under the Preventive Detention Act and sent to trial, they were cleared by the Chief Justice Kobina Arku korsah, Nkrumah was angry and sacked him.

Nkrumah later hand-picked his Chief Justice and Jury found all these people guilty; they were sentenced to death but changed their sentences to life in imprisonment.

In 1966 when Nkrumah was overthrown all of them were set free by the National Liberation Council.