Kofi Abrefa Busia (11 July 1913 – 28 August 1978)[1] was a Ghanaian political leader and academic who was Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 to 1972.

[2] Busia was born a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi, in the Brong Ahafo[disambiguation needed], one of the four Gold Coast Territories, then under British rule and now called Ghana.

When the NLC lifted the ban on politics, Busia, together with Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams and friends in the defunct UP formed the Progress Party (PP).

Due to memories of Nkrumah's authoritarian rule, the country opted for a parliamentary system with the president effectively reduced to a figurehead.

There was a mass deportation of half a million Nigerian citizens from Ghana, and a 44 percent devaluation of the cedi in 1971, which met with a lot of resistance from the public.

[citation needed] While he was in Britain for a medical check-up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972.

Busia remained in exile in England and returned to Oxford University, where he died from a heart attack in August 1978.