Statecraft & Independence
Landmark
William Ofori Atta
1910 – 1988
Of the Big Six, and a lifetime in opposition
Landmark is level 2 of 5 in the Ghana Hall of Fame: a first, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
One of the Big Six, and one of the few who kept arguing his corner through every government that followed independence.
William Ofori Atta was a Ghanaian politician and a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention, one of the Big Six arrested by the colonial government in 1948.
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