Kodzo Afelete Ayeke (22 May 1923 – 20 May 1985)[1] was a Ghanaian politician, teacher, journalist, lawyer, and author.
He entered the Accra Academy in 1942 as one of the first two people to acquire secondary education in his home town, Taviefe.
In exile from Ghana, he continued his law studies in England, achieving the call to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1973, when he was fifty years.
[3] In 1950, Ayeke left the civil service and joined an Ewe Christian minister at Ve-Koloenu.
[13][14] In 1960, Ayeke resigned as member of parliament for the Ho West constituency and was succeeded by Hans Kofi Boni through a bye-election.
In Ghana's Third Republic, Ayeke was the chairman of the Volta Regional Branch of the Popular Front Party from 1979 to 1981.
His private law firm, Tomefa Chambers, initially at Ho-Bakoe, was subsequently relocated to his hometown, Taviefe, with an annex at Hohoe.
[2] Ayeke authored and published two books in the Ewe language, Asitsu Atoawo (1998) and Hlobiabia (1998).
The Five Rivals, his English rendition of his Ewe-written book Asitsu Atoawo, was also left behind to be published posthumously.
His funeral was attended by Victor Owusu, who had been presidential candidate of the Popular Front Party in Ghana’s Third Republic.