Professor Justice Tawia Modibo Ocran (September 12, 1942 – October 27, 2008) was an academic and a Supreme Court Judge in Ghana.
Justice Professor Tawia Modibo Ocran was born on September 12, 1942, at Tarkwa-Nsuaem in the Western Region of Ghana.
[4] He served as a senior political affairs officer of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force for Former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) in Croatia in 1994–95.
In addition to the publication of several articles on international investments and international law in professional journals in the U.S. and Africa, Justice Professor Ocran has authored three books: Law in Aid of Development: Issues in Legal Theory, Economic Development and Institution-Building in Africa (Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1978);[2] The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in Contemporary Ghana (1992); and The Crisis of Peacekeeping in Former Yugoslavia (2002), which carries a foreword by the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
He became highly involved in Pan-Africanist thinking and adopted, as his middle name, the first name of the first president of Mali, Modibo Keita, a dedicated PanAfricanist.
He is survived by his wife Adelaide, a lawyer and law librarian by training and their five children: Araba, Yoofi, Ato, Kojo, and Ama.