Akilagpa Sawyerr (lawyer)
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'''Akilagpa Sawyerr''' (1883 –1948), born '''Gosford Collins Sawyerr{{Cite book |last=Ngcukaitobi |first=Tembeka |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Land_is_Ours/5g5bDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=gosford+sawyerr&pg=PT123&printsec=frontcover |title=The Land is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa |date=2018-02-01 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa |isbn=978-1-77609-286-4 |language=en}}''' and also known as '''Akilagpa Osabramba Sawyerr,''' was a Ghanaian lawyer and political activist. |
'''Akilagpa Sawyerr''' (1883 –1948), born '''Gosford Collins Sawyerr{{Cite book |last=Ngcukaitobi |first=Tembeka |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Land_is_Ours/5g5bDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=gosford+sawyerr&pg=PT123&printsec=frontcover |title=The Land is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa |date=2018-02-01 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa |isbn=978-1-77609-286-4 |language=en}}''' and also known as '''Akilagpa Osabramba Sawyerr,''' was a Ghanaian lawyer and political activist. |
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Sawyerr was born in the British colony of the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], which would become Ghana in 1957. He helped to establish the [[National Congress of British West Africa]], a body that agitated for African self-government and also the political party known as the Accra Ratepayers Association, whose goal was to elect members to the [[Accra]] town council and eventually Parliament. |
Sawyerr was born in the British colony of the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], which would become Ghana in 1957.{{refn|group=note|name=first|The Gold Coast became the Dominion of Ghana in 1957 and Ghana declared itself a republic in 1960.{{cite web|url=https://sahistory.org.za/dated-event/ghana-declared-republic|title=Ghana is declared a republic|date=30 September 2019|website=South African History Online}}}} He helped to establish the [[National Congress of British West Africa]], a body that agitated for African self-government and also the political party known as the Accra Ratepayers Association, whose goal was to elect members to the [[Accra]] town council and eventually Parliament. |
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From 1932-1946, he served on the Accra Town Council and, in 1947, he became a member of the [[Legislative Council of the Gold Coast]] as a representative for the capital.{{cite journal |last1=Hove |first1=Jon Olav |last2=Baku |first2=Kofi |title=Conservatism in Gold Coast Politics: From Ku-Hee (New Party) to the National Democratic Party, 1943–51 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26512469 |journal=Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |issue=17 |pages=27–62}} |
From 1932-1946, he served on the Accra Town Council and, in 1947, he became a member of the [[Legislative Council of the Gold Coast]] as a representative for the capital.{{cite journal |last1=Hove |first1=Jon Olav |last2=Baku |first2=Kofi |title=Conservatism in Gold Coast Politics: From Ku-Hee (New Party) to the National Democratic Party, 1943–51 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26512469 |journal=Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |issue=17 |pages=27–62}} |
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