Statecraft & Independence
Landmark
Nii Amaa Ollennu
1906 – 1986
Supreme Court judge, Speaker, and briefly acting President
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Why they are here
A Supreme Court judge and Speaker of Parliament who served as acting President of Ghana for a fortnight in 1970 — and whose writing on customary land law is still cited.
Nii Amaa Ollennu was a Ghanaian jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 1962 to 1966, as Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 1969 to 1972, and briefly as acting President of Ghana in August 1970.
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