Edwin Jackson Anafi Asomaning (21 September 1930 – 13 May 2001) was a Ghanaian plant pathologist who was Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana from 1965 to 1980.
His father when he was eleven years of age became Nana Frempong Manso II, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of the Akim Kotoku Traditional Area in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
In 1953,[4] he was granted a scholarship to attend Iowa State University in Ames, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1956.
[1] He undertook post-doctoral work at Long Ashton Research Station in Bristol in the United Kingdom.
He also was the Ombudsman for the Ghana Oil Palm Development Corporation outgrowers at Kwae in the Eastern Region.