Tawia Modibo Ocran

Farfesa Justice **Tawia Modibo Ocran** (Satumba 12, 1942 - 27 ga Oktoba, 2008) ya kasance mai ilimi kuma Alƙalin Kotun Ƙoli a Ghana.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Farfesa Tawia Modibo Ocran a ranar 12 ga Satumba, 1942, a Tarkwa-Nsuaem a Yankin Yammacin Ghana. Christened John Tawia Ocran, shi ne ɗa na ƙarshe na marigayi Mista Joseph Samuel Ocran, shugaban makarantar firamare, da Madam Ama Amireku Ocran, uwar gida. Mai shari’a Ocran ya yi karatunsa na firamare a Makarantar Tarkwa-Nsuaem Methodist da Makarantar Katolika ta Tarkwa daga 1949 zuwa 1956. Ya shiga Kwalejin St. Augustine, Cape Coast, a 1957, inda ya kammala duka jarabawa ta Talakawa da Babba. na ajinsa a 1961 da 1963 bi da bi. Ya kuma zama Shugaban Makarantar Makaranta a 1962 da kuma Shugaban Gidan St. Luke a 1962/63. An shigar da shi Faculty of Law na Jami'ar Ghana, Legon, a 1963, kuma ya kammala da LLB. (Hon) a 1966 da Barrister a Law (BL.) Diploma a 1967. Nan da nan ya zarce zuwa Jami'ar Wisconsin, Madison, Amurka, daga inda ya sami digiri na biyu a Makarantun Shari'a (M.L.I.) daga Makarantar Shari'a a 1968 da kuma digiri na biyu Ph.D. a cikin doka da Nazarin Ci gaba a 1971. Ya kuma yi zumuncin bincike na digiri na biyu a Jami'ar California Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School a 1968/69. An kira shi zuwa Barikin Ghana a 1967.

## Aiki

### Ilimi
Daga Wisconsin, Ocran ya fara aikin ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararru wanda ya ƙunshi gogewa iri -iri a matsayin mai ilimi, babban jami'in gwamnatin ƙasa, ma'aikacin farar hula na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, kuma masanin shari'a. A matsayinsa na mai ilimi, ya koyar tsawon shekaru 20 a matsayin Farfesa na Shari'a a Jami'ar Akron Makarantar Shari'a a Ohio, Amurka, ya yi ritaya daga can, a matsayin mai riƙe da ƙwararren masanin bincike na doka da Farfesa Emeritus, bayan nadinsa ga Babban Kotun Ghana a 2004. Tun da farko, ya kasance malami a fannin Shari'a a Jami'ar Zambia (1970 - 73) kuma Mataimakin Farfesa na Dokar Kasuwanci da Kudi a Jami'ar Jihar Jackson, Mississippi (1982 - 84). Ya kuma kasance Malamin Adjunct a Law a Jami'ar Ghana (1976 - 78); wani Malami Bako a Cibiyar Shari'a ta Duniya da ke Washington, D.C, a tsakiyar shekarun 1980, da kuma a Cibiyar Nazarin Shari'a ta Ƙasa (IDLI) a Rome, Italiya, a shekarun 1980 da 1990.

Tun lokacin da ya shiga Kotun Koli a 2004, ya kasance Babban Jami'in Shari'a a Jami'ar Ghana; da kuma masanin shari’a da ke ziyara a cibiyoyin kasashen waje da suka haɗa da Jami'ar Akron School of Law a Ohio, Makarantar Shari’a ta Jami'ar Loyola a Chicago, Makarantar Shari’a ta Jami’ar Arewacin Illinois a DeKalb, Illinois, Makarantar Shari’a ta Jami'ar Washburn a Topeka, Kansas, da Cibiyar Nelson don Kasashen Duniya & Harkokin Waje, Jami'ar James Madison, Virginia, Amurka. A shekarar 2008, an zabi Farfesa Ocran a matsayin Abokin Kwalejin Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Ghana.

A wajen ilimi, ya rike mukamai da dama a Ghana da sauran wurare, ciki har da Babban Daraktan Cibiyar Zuba Jari ta Ghana (1981 - 82); Babban Jami'in Shari'a na Hukumar Zuba Jari ta Kasar Ghana (1975 - 78); Jami'in Harkokin Shari'a/Tattalin Arziki na Hukumar Tattalin Arziki na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na Afirka da Ofishin Yanki na Cibiyar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan Ƙungiyoyin Ƙasashen Duniya a Addis Ababa, Habasha (1978 - 81). A cikin Janairu 1977, an nada shi a Kwamitin "Unigov" wanda ya tsara shirin don aiwatar da "Gwamnatin ƙasa maimakon Unigov", wanda gwamnatin Supreme Military Council ta kafa. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Jami'in Harkokin Siyasa na rundunar wanzar da zaman lafiya ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na tsohuwar Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) a Croatia a 1994 - 95. Ya kasance memba na Kwamitin Tsarin Mulki na 1978 wanda ya yi aiki akan Tsarin Mulkin Ghana na 1979.

Baya ga wallafa labarai da yawa kan saka hannun jari na kasa da kasa da dokar kasa da kasa a cikin mujallu na kwararru a Amurka da Afirka, Mai Shari'a Farfesa Ocran ya rubuta littattafai uku: *Law in Aid of Development: Issues in Legal Theory, Economic Development and Institution-Building in Africa* (Kamfanin Bugawa na Ghana, 1978); *The Legacy of [[Kwame Nkrumah]] in Contemporary Ghana* (1992); da *The Crisis of Peacekeeping in Former Yugoslavia* (2002), wanda ke dauke da Gabatarwa ta tsohon Sakatare Janar na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, Kofi Annan. 

### Kungiyoyin duniya
Ocran ya kasance ƙwararren jagoran ɗalibi kuma mai shirya matasa a shekarun 1960. Ya shiga cikin tunanin Pan-Africanist sosai kuma ya karɓi, a matsayin sunansa na tsakiya, sunan farko na Shugaban Mali na farko, Modibo Keita, ƙwararren PanAfricanist. A 1965, yayin da yake Jami'ar Ghana, an zaɓi Modibo (kamar yadda abokan karatunsa na kwaleji suka kira shi) a matsayin Shugaban Ƙungiyoyin Daliban Socialist na Ghana (GHANASSO), ƙungiyar ɗaliban pro-Nkrumah ta rungumi dukkan manyan makarantun ilimi a Ghana. A wannan matsayin, an tsare shi na ɗan lokaci bayan juyin mulkin da sojoji suka yi wa Kwame Nkrumah a 1966.

Tun da farko, ya yi aiki a matsayin Sakatare/Mai Taron Ƙungiyar Legon na Convention People's Party (1964/65); memba na Ofishin Matasa na Sakatariyar Ƙasa a Hedkwatar CPP (1964/66); da Shugaban Ƙungiyar Dalibai na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya (UNSA), reshen Jami'ar Ghana (1964), da Ƙungiyar Makarantun Sakandare na Yankin Tsakiya (1962/63). A shekarun 1970, bayan dawowarsa daga lacca a Jami'ar Zambiya, ya ci gaba da sha'awar matasa da al'amuran ƙasar Ghana, inda ya zama Babban Sakataren Ƙungiyar Matasan Yankin Yammacin Turai (WERYA) (1976 - 78).

## Mutuwa
Tawia Ocran ta mutu a ranar 27 ga Oktoba, 2008, a Akron, Ohio, Amurka. Ya rasu ya bar matarsa ​​Adelaide, lauya kuma mai kula da ɗakin karatu na doka ta hanyar horo da yaransu biyar: Araba, Yoofi, Ato, Kojo, da Ama.

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