Background
Kwesi Dickson was born at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana.
Kwesi Dickson was born at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana.
He was educated at the Mfantsipim School at Cape Coast. He completed his basic ministerial training at the Trinity Theological Seminary (then Trinity College in Kumasi) in 1951. He then attended the University of Ghana, then the University College of the Gold Coast.
He was the seventh President of the Methodist Church Ghana and a professor at the University of Ghana, Legon. Next he went to the United Kingdom where his postgraduate education was at Mansfield College, Oxford at Oxford University. Dickson was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church of Ghana at the British Methodist Conference of 1957.
He served in various capacities at the University of Ghana over three decades until 1989.
He has been the Head of the Department for the Study of Religions, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Master of Commonwealth Hall, the first Dean of Students and the Director of the Institute of African Studies. when he was succeeded by Kwame Arhin. At various times, he served as adjunct professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.
He was its president on two occasions. He also worked at the University of Swaziland as a visiting professor
In 1989, he was elected as President of the Methodist Church Ghana.
He served two consecutive 4 year terms ending in 1997. He has served as Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana and as All Africa Conference of Churches President of the All African Council of Churches. He loved tennis music and was a good pianist.
Dickson died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra after a short illness.
