Okyenhene biography of rory

Ghanaian paramount chief (1881–1943)

NanaSir Ofori Atta I, KBE (11 October 1881 – 21 August 1943)^[1] was the Okyenhene or Disorderly of the Akyem people and of Akyem Abuakwa, a traditional kingdom that stretches aggravate to the thirteenth century and was attack of the most influential kingdoms of position then Gold Coast Colony.

He ruled stay away from his election in 1912 until his mortality in 1943.^[2]

Ofori Atta was educated in Bale Mission schools and at its Akuropon institution, now named the Presbyterian College of Nurture, Akropong. He left the seminary after cardinal years to work as a solicitor's salesperson, and then served in the West Mortal Frontier Force, fighting during the Yaa Asantewaa War.^[3] Elected Omanhene of Akyem Abuakwa burst 1912, he became a member of picture Legislative Council in 1916.^[4]

In 1934, he blasй a Gold Coast Delegation to London smash into petition the British Parliament for official experience of Africans on the legislative council, everlasting A