K.B. Asante’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ghanaian diplomat
A.K.A. Kwaku Baprui Asante
Was Diplomat
From Ghana
Type

Politics

Gender male
Birth

1 March 1924, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Death

22 January 2018
(aged 93 years)

Star sign Pisces
Education
Achimota School

Kwaku Baprui Asante (26 March 1924 – 22 January 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat, writer and politician. He was the Secretary to Ghana’s First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Asante served under most Heads of States in Ghana, starting from Nkrumah, and also served as the Principal Secretary at African Affairs Secretariat from 1960 to 1966.

He was educated at Achimota School and later returned there to teach Mathematics.

Education and career

Born in Accra, Gold Coast, on 26 March 1924, Asante attended the O’Reilly Educational Institute, Tudu, Government Junior Boys’ School, Adabraka, and Government Senior Boys’ School, Kinbu, from 1927 to 1937. He also attended Achimota College Upper Primary and Secondary School from 1938 to 1942, where also he taught mathematics (1945–48). He then proceeded to Durham University in Britain, where he obtained a BSc Mathematics in 1952. He became a member of the Institute of Statisticians in 1953, before returning to Achimota College, where from 1953 to 1955 he taught mathematics.

He worked for six years at The Flagstaff House, and was Principal Secretary at the African Affairs Secretariat (1960–66). From 1967 to 1972, he was Ghana’s Ambassador to Switzerland, also with concurrent to Australia, and from 1976 to 1978 he served as Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, and the European Economic Community.

Between 1982 and 1986, Asante served as the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council government led by Jerry Rawlings. He also served as Secretary for Education and Culture between 1986 and 1990.

Asante wrote a weekly column, “Voice from afar” in the national newspaper, Daily Graphic. An anthology of his weekly articles was published as a book with the same title of his column in 2003.

Personal life

He was married with five children. Asante was a lifelong congregant of the Anglican Church. K. B. Asante was also a Freemason, belonging to the District Grand Lodge of Ghana under the United Grand Lodge of England.

Death

He died on 22 January 2018 at the age of 93. He was accorded a ceremonial burial at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra.

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