Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 June 1913 – 11 July 1998)[1] was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961.

In 1943, he quit his teaching role at Accra Academy to engage in the timber trade full-time.

[9] Gbedemah, who himself got elected into the Legislative Assembly, became the first Ghanaian Minister for Health and Labour in Nkrumah's government.

He was influential in getting an initially reluctant United States government to back the building of the Akosombo Dam.

This followed a Supreme Court ruling, upholding the NLC barring members of the CPP accused of financial crimes from holding public office for ten years.

[14][15] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

[16] In the United States, Gbedemah is most widely known from an incident on 10 October 1957 when U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to him after he was refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

[17] Gbedemah told the staff: "The people here are of a lower social status than I am, but they can drink here and we can't.