Statecraft & Independence
Landmark
Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey
1902 – 1963
Of the Big Six, and died in detention
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Why they are here
Lawyer, one of the Big Six, and one of the two who died in Nkrumah's detention rather than in office.
Emmanuel Odarkwei Obetsebi-Lamptey was a Ghanaian lawyer and political activist, and one of the Big Six of the United Gold Coast Convention arrested in 1948.
He died in 1963.
He died in 1963.
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