Joseph Yaw Manu was a Ghanaian civil servant and politician of the First Parliament of the Second Republic representing the Mampong South Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
As a member of the United Party he fled to Abidjan in the Ivory Coast to seek asylum on January 7, 1961.
Joseph Yaw Manu was accused of making frequent trips to Togo while in exile at the Ivory Coast to attend meetings that were organised by the United Party.
The allegation was that these meetings were organised to plan the overthrow of the then Nkrumah government and the assassination of the then president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and that these plans were eventually executed in the form of the Kulungugu attack in the then Upper Region of Ghana on 1 August 1962 when a hand grenade was thrown at the president by a person or people who were believed to have been working for Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey who was believed to have been the main brain behind the attack.
[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][3] In 1969 he was elected to represent the Mampong South constituency in the second republic parliament on the ticket of the Progress Party.