Joseph Arthur Ankarah

**Joseph Arthur Ankrah** (18  Agusta 1915 - 25 Nuwamba 1992). Janar ne na sojojin Ghana wanda ya zama shugaban Ghana na biyu daga 1966 zuwa 1969 a matsayin shugaban majalisar 'yantar da kasa.

Ankrah ya kuma taɓa zama shugaban ƙungiyar haɗin kan Afrika daga ranar 24 ga watan Fabrairun 1966 zuwa 5 ga watan Nuwamban shekarar 1966. Kafin ya zama shugaban kasa, Ankrah ya taɓa zama babban kwamandan sojojin Ghana na farko.

## Farkon rayuwa
An haifi Ankrah a ranar 18 ga Agusta 1915 a Accra ga dangin ga na Samuel Paul Cofie Ankrah, mai kula da Ƙungiyar Mishan ta Kirista, da Beatrice Abashie Quaynor, ɗan kasuwa.

## Karatu
Ankrah ya fara karatunsa ne a shekarar 1921 a Makarantar Methodist ta Wesleyan da ke birnin Accra, inda ake yi masa lakabi da 'Ankrah Patapaa' saboda "karfin jayayya da kuma taka rawar jagoranci a tsakanin abokan zamansa". A 1932, ya shiga Accra Academy, daya daga cikin manyan makarantun sakandare naGhana, inda ya kafa kansa a matsayin dan wasan kwallon kafa nagari. Ya samu takardar shedar makarantar Senior Cambridge a shekarar 1937. Sannan ya shiga aikin bautar kasa na Ghana.

## Aikin soja
Ankrah ya shiga Regiment na Gold Coast a shekara ta 1939. A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, an hada Ankrah cikin rundunar sojojin da ke gaba da yammacin Afirka. Yayin da Brigade ya kasance a Gabashin Afirka a cikin 1940, an canza shi zuwa ofishin rikodin da ke Accra tare da matsayin Warrant Officer Class II kuma ya zama na biyu a cikin kwamandan.

A watan Oktoban 1946, ya je Sashen horar da Jami’an Cadets na Marshfield a Burtaniya kuma ya kammala karatunsa a watan Fabrairun 1947 a matsayin hafsan Afirka na farko a cikin Sojojin Gold Coast. An ba shi mukamin Laftanar a 1947 kuma ya zama kwamandan sansanin Afirka na farko a hedkwatar sojoji.

Daga baya aka nada shi Babban Malami na Sashen ilimi na Ghana na farko. An kara masa girma zuwa Major a 1956 kuma ya zama dan Afirka na farko da ya jagoranci wani kamfani na Afirka baki daya, Kamfanin Charlie na Battalion na farko a Tamale, Ghana. Daga baya ya zama Laftanar Kanar ya karbi ragamar mulkin bataliyar baki daya.

Ya kai matsayin Kanar ne a shekarar 1960, a lokacin da jami’an Ghana kadan ne a wannan matakin. A lokacin aikin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a Kongo, ya kasance Kwamandan Birged na rundunar da ke Luluabourg, Kasai a Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo a yau.

Shi ne dan Ghana daya tilo da ya samu kyautar Military Cross a Leopoldville saboda ayyukan da ba a taba ganin irinsa ba a Kongo a shekarar 1961. Labarin ya karanta:

Tare da hankali, Nutsuwa, da dabara, wannan jami'in ya magance wani yanayi mai wuya wanda in ba haka ba zai haifar da mummunan sakamako a Leopoldville da yawancin sassan Kongo. Kanar Ankrah, ba tare da mutunta ransa ba, ya kwance wa wani sojan Armée Nationale Congolaise (ANC) makamai, wanda, dauke da carbine na sten machine, ya yi yunkurin ya harbi Mista Lumumba.

Ya dauki Firai Ministan ne a cikin motar da ‘yan kwanton baunar ANC suka harba. Idan da ba don gaggawar matakin da Kanar Ankrah ya dauka na kasadar rayuwarsa ba, da an dauki rayuwar Mista Lumumba da wani sakamako mara misaltuwa a lokacin.

Bayan gogewarsa a Kongo, ya samu karin girma cikin sauri zuwa Birgediya sannan Manjo Janar ya zama kwamandan Ghana na farko na sojojin Ghana a 1961 sannan kuma mataimakin babban hafsan hafsoshin tsaro. An kore shi daga aikin sojan Ghana a watan Yulin 1965 bisa zarginsa da hannu a wani yunkurin juyin mulki.

## Shugaban kasa
Ankrah ya zama shugaban bankin zuba jari na kasa bayan ya bar aikin soja. Duk da haka, ya zama Shugaban kasa kuma Shugaban Majalisar 'Yanci ta Kasa bayan juyin mulkin 24 ga Fabrairu 1966.

A watan Janairun 1967, ya shiga tsakanin bangarorin yakin basasar Najeriya da suka fafata a kasar Biafra. An tilasta masa yin murabus daga mukaminsa na Shugaban NLC kuma shugaban kasa kan badakalar karbar cin hanci da ya shafi wani dan kasuwan Najeriya.

## Wasanni
Ankrah ya kasance shugaban farko na Majalisar Ma'aikatan Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. kuma ya jagoranci kungiyar kwallon kafa na tsawon lokaci.

## Iyali
A cikin 1965 ya auri matarsa ​​ta uku, Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar (12 Yuni 1938 - 9 Yuni 2005), a Accra.

## Manazarta