Education
Ofori Atta was educated in Basel Mission schools and at its Akuropon seminary.
Ofori Atta was educated in Basel Mission schools and at its Akuropon seminary.
He worked as a clerk, and then served in the West African Frontier Force, fighting during the Yaa Asantewaa War. "Ofori Atta was the son of a senior official of the palace. His mother was the descendant of one of the founders of the kingdom.
Once in power, he was determined to return Akyem Abuakwa to its former glory.
He was the grandfather of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Ghana"s former Foreign Minister and Presidential Candidate of the Nuclear Power Plant in 2008 and 2012.
He was the brother of Doctor J. B. Danquah (a founder of the United Gold Coast Convention), and the father of Aaron Ofori Atta (a Minister of Communications and Minister of Local Government), William Ofori Atta (a Minister of Foreign Affairs, Presidential Candidate of the University of North Carolina), Doctor Akwasi Amoako-Atta (Governor of Bank of Ghana), Doctor Jones Ofori-Atta (Deputy Minister of Finance), and Doctor Susannah Ofori Atta (the first female doctor in West Africa).
Elected Omanhene of Akyem Abuakwa in 1912, he became the first African member of the Legislative Council in 1916 to represent the Gold Coast.
