Renowned Ghanaian diplomat, Kwaku Baprui Asante, has died at age 93.<\/p>\n
This was confirmed to Citi News<\/strong> by a family member on Monday morning, who said a further statement will be released.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”CeZCqM1je77QvVGLYfVps7tKcK6kpKCe”]Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to\u00a0Ghana’s First President Dr.\u00a0Kwame Nkrumah, and served under a number of Heads of States in Ghana.<\/p>\n He also served as the Principal Secretary at African Affairs Secretariat from 1960 to 1966.<\/p>\n He became Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations Offices in Geneva, and the UN establishment in Vienna, and also the Ambassador to Australia from 1967-72.<\/p>\n He also served as the Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Economic Community from 1976-1978.<\/p>\n Life in politics<\/strong><\/p>\n K.B. Asante retired from the Civil Service in 1978, to form the Social Democratic Front to contest the 1979 election where his party won three parliamentary seats in that election.<\/p>\n He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council\u00a0(PNDC) administration in 1982, and later Secretary for Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.<\/p>\n Education<\/strong><\/p>\n K.B. Asante attended\u00a0Achimota School where he later taught mathematics from 1945 to 1948, before proceeding to\u00a0Durham University\u00a0in Britain, where he obtained a BSc Mathematics in 1952.<\/p>\n He also became a member of the Institute of Statisticians in 1953, before again returning to\u00a0Achimota College, where he continued teaching mathematics from 1953 to 1955.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renowned Ghanaian diplomat, Kwaku Baprui Asante, has died at age 93. This was confirmed to Citi News by a family member on Monday morning, who said a further statement will be released. [contextly_sidebar id=”CeZCqM1je77QvVGLYfVps7tKcK6kpKCe”]Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to\u00a0Ghana’s First President Dr.\u00a0Kwame Nkrumah, and served under a number of Heads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":393877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,1903],"class_list":["post-393872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-k-b-asante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}