{"id":393872,"date":"2018-01-22T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393872"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:43:32","slug":"k-b-asante-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/k-b-asante-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"K.B. Asante passes on at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"
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":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,1903],"yoast_head":"\n