Kofi Batsa

Kofi Batsa (born 1931) was a Ghanaian political activist and writer.

Life

Batsa became President of the Takoradi Youth League in Ghana, and a member of the executive committee of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).[1] He was among 81 people expelled from Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party in 1954. However, Batsa was subsequently re-admitted to the CPP and made principal research officer at the Bureau of African Affairs. For a while he was editor of the monthly Voice of Africa.[2] In December 1962 Nkrumah made him editor of The Spark, an intellectual magazine established to "spell out the content of socialism".[3] The Spark criticized the idea of 'African socialism', attempting to enunciate a properly 'scientific socialism' for an African context.[4] In November 1963 Batsa also became Secretary-General of the Pan-African Union of Journalists (PAUJ).[5]

After Nkrumah's fall from power, Batsa moved away from socialism towards capitalism.[2] He returned to politics as an aide to Hilla Limann's 1979-81 government.In 1973 Kofi got married to Victoria Ababio and had a child named Tricia Batsa .Kofi's life will remembered by is daughters Veronica Batsa,Idris Batsa and Brenda Batsa also by grandchildren Angelio Batsa- lue,Abena Batsa,Jeromey Batsa,Jermaine Batsa and Nyla Batsa.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani (2012). Union Education in Nigeria: Labor, Empire, and Decolonization Since 1945. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-137-00359-1.
  2. 1 2 Ama Biney (2011). The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-230-11864-5.
  3. ↑ Ebenezer Obiri Addo (1997). Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana. University Press of America. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7618-1318-7.
  4. ↑ William H. Friedland & Carl G. Rosberg, Jr., ed. (1964). African Socialism. Stanford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-8047-0203-4.
  5. ↑ Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1961). Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity. U of Nebraska Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-8032-9856-0.
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