Bashiru Kwaw-Swanzy (25 October 1921 – 15 September 1997) was a Ghanaian politician, who served as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the First Republic.
In 1939, he entered Prince of Wales College, later known as Achimota School, where he obtained his Cambridge Certificate in 1940, and he continued at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast, in 1941 to train as a teacher, receiving his Gold Coast teachers' certificate in 1942.
During his time in Zanzibar in 1961, Kwaw-Swanzy successfully obtained the acquittal of about 80 members of the Afro-Shirazi Party who had been indicted for murder in the riots which erupted in that country in 1960.
In Gambia, Kwaw-Swanzy secured the acquittal of the former Gambian President, Sir Dauda Jawara and several members of his Progressive Peoples' Party for electoral malpractices and fraud in 1962.
[4][5][6][7][8][3] He converted to the Islamic faith through the agency of Sheik Ibrahim Amartey while in prison at Ussher Fort, on 5 October 1967, after the change of government in February 1966.