Kojo Botsio

Kojo Botsio was born on February 21, 1916, in Winneba. Educated at Adisadel College, Achimota College, and Brasenose College, Oxford, he met Kwame Nkrumah in London in 1945 while serving as treasurer of the West African National Secretariat.

Returning to the Gold Coast, Botsio co-founded the Convention People's Party (CPP) in June 1949, serving as its first General Secretary. Over the next fifteen years, he held critical ministerial portfolios including Education, Social Welfare, and Foreign Affairs, organizing the 1958 Conference of Independent African States and the All-African Peoples' Conference in Accra that electrified liberation movements across the continent.