While he was in Britain for a medical check-up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972.
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K. A. Busia was born a prince in the kingdom of Wenchi, a part of the Ashanti Confederacy, one of the four Gold Coast Territories, then under British rule and now called Ghana.
Wenchi is the home and birthplace of Kofi Abrefa Busia, former prime minister of Ghana, who is buried in Wenchi.
Kofi Annan | Kofi Burbridge | Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre | Kofi Abrefa Busia | Kofi Yamgnane | Kofi Kingston | Kofi Awoonor | Busia town | Akosua Busia |
All the opposition parties, including the National Liberation Movement, Moslem Association Party, Northern People's Party, Ga Shifimo Kpee, Togoland Congress and the Anlo Youth Organisation merged to form the United Party, under the leadership of Kofi Abrefa Busia.
This commission remained in place even after the handover to the democratically elected Progress Party government of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.
On October 12, 1996, John married Ghanaian actress Akosua Gyamama Busia, an actress and the daughter of Ghana's second Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.