Krobo Edusei

Krobo Edusei (26 December 1914 – 13 February 1984)[1][2] was a Ghanaian politician and a member of Kwame Nkrumah's government.

Krobo Edusei was born on 26 December 1914 in the village of Ampabame, located in the Ashanti region.

He continued to be politically active and very influential as a senior member of the People's National Party (PNP), a party formed from the ashes of Nkrumaist CPP; and when the PNP went on to win Ghana's second (the first was won by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia) post-Nkrumah elections, Edusei became a powerful figure in Hilla Limann's government.

Krobo Edusei married three times and had numerous children who remain active in the Ghanaian business world.

The more well known of his children include prominent millionaire Ghanaian businessman and ports operator, Yaw Krobo Edusei, Lucy Lamptey, former legal director of the Ghanaian government agency Social Security and National Insurance Trust, property entrepreneur and former Coca-Cola executive, Comfort Emden and Catherine Krobo Edusei, entrepreneur, owner and CEO of the Eden Tree brand.