Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah

Jantuah was born in 1922 at Kejetia, a suburb of Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of what was then the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). He was baptised on 19 May, 1934 and he was given the Christian names John and Ernest at the St. Peter's Catholic Church in Kumasi. In 1936, he proceeded to the St. Theresa's Junior Seminary at Amissano, near Elmina, for training. He attended St. Augustine's College from 1943 to 1944. He proceeded to the United Kingdom to study politics and economics at the University of Oxford (Plater College) on an Asanteman Council scholarship set up by the late Ashanti king (Asantehene), Otumfuo Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II. Jantuah entered the College of Law in 1964 and obtain his LLB and BL degrees in 1966. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and later to the Ghana bar.[2]

He was known formally as John Ernest Jantuah until 21 December 1962, when he changed his name to Kwame Sanaa-Poku Jantuah. He was one of many Ghanaians to receive national awards on 6 July, 2007 in Accra.[3]

He served as the Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in the 1950s, the first resident Ambassador to France[4] and the Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in the late 1980s during the PNDC era.[5] He was also the ambassador to Brazil during the Nkrumah era.[3]

Jantuah served as a cabinet minister in the Nkrumah government of the first republic[6] and as the Interior Minister during the Limann government.

Jantuah died after a short illness in Accra on 3 February 2011, aged 88.[7]

• Limann government

• Crusading Guide