Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
 Komla Agbeli Gbedemah | |||||||||||||
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1956 - 1961 Election: 1956 Gold Coast legislative election (en) 
15 ga Yuni, 1954 - 17 ga Yuli, 1956 Election: 1954 Gold Coast legislative election (en)
20 ga Faburairu, 1951 - 1954 Election: 1951 Gold Coast legislative election (en)
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| Haihuwa | Ghana, 17 ga Yuni, 1913 | ||||||||||||
| ƙasa | Ghana | ||||||||||||
| Mutuwa | 11 ga Yuli, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Karatu | |||||||||||||
| Makaranta |
Adisadel College (en) Achimota School Adisadel College (en) Teachers' Training Certificate (en) | ||||||||||||
| Harsuna | Turanci | ||||||||||||
| Sana'a | |||||||||||||
| Sana'a | ɗan siyasa da Malami | ||||||||||||
| Imani | |||||||||||||
| Addini | Kirista | ||||||||||||
| Jam'iyar siyasa |
Convention People's Party (en) | ||||||||||||
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 ga Yuni 1913 - 11 Yuli 1998)[1] ɗan siyasan Ghana ne kuma Ministan Kudi a gwamnatin Nkrumah ta Ghana tsakanin 1954 zuwa 1961. Wanda aka fi sani da "Afro Gbede",[2] ɗan asalin Anyako ne a Yankin Volta na ƙasar Ghana.[3][4]
Rayuwar farko da aiki[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
An haifi Komla Gbedemah a ranar 17 ga Yuni 1913 a Warri, Nigeria, na Ewe. Ya halarci Makarantar Mfantsipim a Cape Coast don karatun sakandare daga 1925 zuwa 1929 da Kwalejin Achimota daga 1929 zuwa 1933.[5]
Farkon aikinsa ya kasance malamin aiki a wata makarantar sakandare a Akuapem a Yankin Gabashin Ghana. A cikin 1939, ya zama Masanin Kimiyya a Accra Academy a Jamestown. Tare da koyarwa, ya tsunduma cikin sana'ar katako da kayan zaki. A cikin 1943, ya bar aikin koyarwa a Accra Academy don shiga cikin cinikin katako cikakken lokaci.[6]
Aikin siyasa[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
Asalin Gbedemah memba ne na United Gold Coast Convention. Ya tafi tare da Dr Kwame Nkrumah don kafa Jam'iyyar Jama'a (CPP). Gbedemah ya kasance memba mai mahimmanci a CPP saboda iyawar ƙungiyarsa.[7] Ya yi tasiri wajen zabar Nkrumah a Majalisar Dokoki a ranar 8 ga Fabrairu 1951 a Zaɓen Majalisar Dokoki. Ya shirya kamfen din Nkrumah gaba daya yayin da Nkrumah ke cikin kurkuku, wanda gwamnatin mulkin mallaka ta tsare. Nkrumah ya lashe kujerar karamar hukumar Accra ta tsakiya. Wannan ya sa aka saki Nkrumah a ranar 12 ga watan Fabrairu 1951 kuma aka gayyace shi ya kafa gwamnati.[8] Gbedemah yana cikin wasu rahotanni mai suna a matsayin wanda ya fara maraba da Nkrumah bayan an sake shi daga gidan yari na Sansanin James.[9]
Gbedemah, wanda da kansa aka zabe shi a Majalisar Dokoki, ya zama Ministan Lafiya da Kwadago na farko a gwamnatin Nkrumah. A shekarar 1954, ya zama Ministan Kudi, matsayin da ya rike na tsawon shekaru bakwai. Ya yi tasiri wajen samun gwamnatin Amurka da farko ta nuna rashin jin daɗi don tallafawa ginin madatsar ruwa ta Akosombo.[10] Daga baya, yayin da alakar sa da Nkrumah ta tabarbare, Nkrumah ya sauke Gbedemah zuwa mukamin Ministan Lafiya a watan Mayu 1961.[10] Majiyoyin Amurka sun yi zargin cewa a wani lokaci Gbedemah yana tunanin kifar da Nkrumah. An nakalto yana cewa: "Zan yi nadamar yin hakan amma ƙasar ta ishe girman kan Nkrumah, son zuciya da hauka." Nkrumah ya nemi Gbedemah yayi murabus a watan Satumba 1961.[10]
An tilasta Gbedemah zuwa gudun hijira daga baya a wannan shekarar, bayan da ya tabarbare alakar da ke tsakanin sa da Nkrumah kan abin da ya ke ganin rashin da'a na Nkrumah.[11][12] Ana zargin ya gudu ne saboda ana shirin tsare shi a tsare. Yayin da yake gudun hijira, an san cewa ya ci gaba da yiwa Amurka zagon kasa kan aikin dam din Akosombo.[10]
Gbedemah ya kafa kuma ya jagoranci National Alliance of Liberals cikin babban zaben 1969. Taken yakin neman zabensa "Ku faɗi da ƙarfi, ni baki ne kuma ina alfahari!" An ɗauko shi daga sanannen waƙar James Brown.[2] Bayan zaben, an hana Gbedemah hawa kujerar sa a majalisa. Wannan ya biyo bayan hukuncin da Kotun Koli ta yanke, inda ta goyi bayan NLC ta hana mambobin CPP da ake zargi da laifukan kudi rike mukamin gwamnati na tsawon shekaru goma. Wannan shawarar ta sa ya yi ritaya daga shiga harkar siyasa.[13]
Haɗarin gidan abincin Howard Johnson[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
A Amurka, Gbedemah ya fi kowa sani daga wani abin da ya faru a ranar 10 ga Oktoba 1957 lokacin da Shugaban Amurka Dwight D. Eisenhower ya ba shi hakuri bayan an hana shi hidima a gidan abincin Howard Johnson a Dover, Delaware.[14] Gbedemah ya gaya wa ma’aikatan: “Mutanen da ke ƙasa sun fi ni matsayi, amma suna iya sha a nan kuma ba za mu iya ba. Kuna iya ajiye ruwan lemu da canji, amma wannan ba shine na ƙarshe da kuka ji ba wannan."[15][16] Lamarin da ya sa aka gayyaci Gbedemah zuwa karin kumallo a Fadar White House.[9]
Matsayi[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
- Jagora, Ƙungiyar Jama'a don 'Yanci da Adalci (1991 -?)
- Wanda ya kafa kuma Jagora, National Alliance of Liberals - (1969)
- Memba, Majalisar Dokoki, Ghana (1951 -?)
- Manaja da Edita, Accra Evening News (1949 -?)
- Mataimakin Shugaban, Convention People's Party (1949 -?)
Ayyuka[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
- Gbedemah, K. A. It will not be "work and happiness for all"; an open letter being also an appeal to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and comment on and criticism of the proposed new 7 year Ghana development plan. [n.p.], 1962. [32p].[17]
Manazarta[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]
- ↑ Amenumey, D. E. K. (2002). Outstanding Ewes of the 20th Century. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. p. 176. ISBN 9964978839.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Duodu, Cameron (27 December 2006). "Say it loud!". Guardian Unlimited. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ "K. A. Gbedemah - A Political Colossus". Graphic Online (in Turanci). Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ↑ "K.A. Gbedemah - A political colossus". www.myjoyonline.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ↑ Therson-Cofie, Martin (9 August 1952). "WHO'S WHO IN THE GOLD COAST". Daily Graphic. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ↑ Uwechue, Raph (1991). Africa's Who's Who. Africa Journal Ltd. p. 702. ISBN 9780903274173.
- ↑ "Professional Bodies (other than legal) and Civil Society groups" (PDF). October 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ "Profiles:Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (Founder and First Pres. of Ghana)". Official website of the Office of the President of Ghana. Ghana government. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2007.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Birmingham, David. Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism (revised edition), Ohio University Press, 1998.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Foreign Relations, 1961-1963, Africa". Released archive on Foreign Relations of the United States. United States Department of State. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ "Friday's Child". Free Archive. 12 September 1969. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ Thayer Watkins. "Political and Economic History of Ghana". San José State University. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
Komla Gbedemah was founder of the CPP and an able administrator. He objected Nkrumah's lack of financial discipline and soon found himself dismissed from the government by Nkrumah in a radio broadcast at dawn in April 1961.
- ↑ "The National Liberation Council and the Busia Years". Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ "From Segregation to Breakfast". Time. 21 October 1957. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2007.
- ↑ Thayer Watkins. "The Volta River Project in Ghana, West Africa". San José State University. Archived from the original on 8 April 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ↑ Gbedemah relates this story in part 5 ("Black Power") of Adam Curtis's 1992 documentary series Pandora's Box.
- ↑ "Ivor Wilks-Phyllis Ferguson Collection of Material on Ghana". Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP). Center for Research Libraries. Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2007.