Complex sentence: His family, part of the Ghanaian Fante Anona clan, was fairly wealthy; his father was Reverend Joseph de Graft Hayford (1840-1919), a minister in the Methodist church and a prominent figure in Ghanaian politics.
Split into simpler sentences: His family, part of the Fante Anona clan, was fairly wealthy. His father Joseph de Graft Hayford (1840-1919), was educated and ordained as a minister in the Methodist church; he was a prominent figure in Ghanaian politics.