Augustus Molade Akiwumi
Augustus Molade Akiwumi was a Supreme Court Judge and also the second Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.Augustus Akiwumi was born in Nigeria but became a naturalised Ghanaian.
In 1910 he was sent to live with guardians, a Smith family of Crosby, Cumbria in England. He attended Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset. He proceeded to the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he studied law. He also trained as a banker at the Midland Bank, Ludgate Hill, London, prior to his return to Ghana.Career
He was called to the bar at the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1921. He became a judge in Ghana and was appointed a Supreme Court Judge. In 1964, while he was a High Court Judge in Ghana, he was appointed Legal Secretary in the East African Common Service Organisation. He was later appointed Speaker of the Parliament in February 1958 in the Dominion of Ghana.Family
Akiwumi married Grace Aryee and, subsequently, Helen Kabuki Ocansey, both Ghanaians.
