Bankole Awoonor-Renner

human
Ein sex anaa gender	male
Ein country of citizenship	Gold Coast Colony
Name wey dem give am	Kweku
Family name	Awoonor
Ein date of birth	1898
Place dem born am	Elmina
Date wey edie	27 May 1970
Ein poppie	Peter Awoonor-Renner
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Ein occupation	journalist

Kweku Bankole Awoonor-Renner (6 June 1898 – 27 May 1970) be Ghanaian politician, journalist, anti-colonialist den Pan-Africanist.^[1]^[2] For 1921, Awoonor-Renner travel go de United States (US) go study journalism for Carnegie Institute of Technology. As e dey study for de US, Awoonor-Renner join de Communist Party.^[2]

Early life

Dem born Bankole Awoonor-Renner insyd Elmina insyd Gold Coast, wey be British colony for West Africa. Ein poppie Peter Awoonor-Renner be lawyer den first leader for de Gold Coast bar.^[3] Awoonor-Renner go boarding school for Cape Coast.

Years abroad

Insyd 1925, Awoonor-Renner travel from de US go Soviet Union plus nine other Black men to go learn for de Communist University of de Toilers of de East (KUTV).^[4] Dem dey see am as de first Black African wey study for de Soviet Union. He lef de Soviet Union go Great Britain for 1927, wey he continue ein journalism studies for de Institute of Journalists for London, den he turn de first African wey graduate from dat Institute.

Ein life matter

Awoonor-Renner meet ein wife Olabisi Awoonor-Renner (wey ein maiden name be Alakija) for London. Dem marry for April 1944. Dem get five kiddies together—four boys den one girl.

Return to de Gold Coast

Wen he come back Gold Coast, Awoonor-Renner turn editor for de Gold Coast Leader newspaper.^[5]

For 1934, Awoonor-Renner plus some other people, wey include Ellis Brown, I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson den Robert Benjamin Wuta-Ofei, form de West African Youth League (WAYL) for Gold Coast.^[6] Dem elect Awoonor-Renner as President for WAYL.

He change ein religion go Islam for 1942, wey he win seat for Accra city council under de Moslem Party.

For 1945, he go de Fifth Pan-African Congress for Manchester, represent de Friends of African Freedom Society.^[7]

He start as Kwame Nkrumah ein colleague, help am form de Convention People's Party (CPP), wey dem arrest am put am inside prison plus Nkrumah for 1950. But later he lef Nkrumah den start ein own party, de Moslem Association Party.^[8]

Later life

After political pluralism get ban for de 1960s, Awoonor-Renner comot for politics. He die poor.

References

↑ Sherwood, Marika (2017). "Awoonor-Renner, Bankole". Oxford African American Studies Center (in English). doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.73486. ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1. Retrieved 2021-02-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Osei-Opare, Nana (April 2023). "Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits". Comparative Studies in Society and History (in English). 65 (2): 412. doi:10.1017/S0010417522000548. ISSN 0010-4175.
↑ Weiss, Holger (2014-01-01). Framing a Radical African Atlantic. BRILL. p. 68. doi:10.1163/9789004261686. ISBN 978-90-04-26168-6.
↑ McClellan, Woodford (1993). "Africans and Black Americans in the Comintern Schools, 1925-1934". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 26 (2): 371–390. doi:10.2307/219551. JSTOR 219551.
↑ Hanretta, Sean (2011). "'Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: Being Muslim in Public in Colonial Ghana". Past & Present (210): 187–220. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtq009. ISSN 0031-2746. JSTOR 23015376.
↑ Asante, S. K. B. (1975). "I.t.a. Wallace Johnson and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (4): 631–646. ISSN 0018-2540. JSTOR 41971218.
↑ Adi, Hakim; Sherwood, Marika (1995). The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (in English). New Beacon Books. ISBN 978-1-873201-12-1.
↑ de Boyer, Antoine (16 March 2016). "AWOONOR-RENNER Bankole, Kweku". Maitron (in French). Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-04.

[1] Sherwood, Marika (2017). "Awoonor-Renner, Bankole". Oxford African American Studies Center (in English). doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.73486. ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1. Retrieved 2021-02-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Osei-Opare, Nana (April 2023). "Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits". Comparative Studies in Society and History (in English). 65 (2): 412. doi:10.1017/S0010417522000548. ISSN 0010-4175.

[3] Weiss, Holger (2014-01-01). Framing a Radical African Atlantic. BRILL. p. 68. doi:10.1163/9789004261686. ISBN 978-90-04-26168-6.

[4] McClellan, Woodford (1993). "Africans and Black Americans in the Comintern Schools, 1925-1934". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 26 (2): 371–390. doi:10.2307/219551. JSTOR 219551.

[5] Hanretta, Sean (2011). "'Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: Being Muslim in Public in Colonial Ghana". Past & Present (210): 187–220. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtq009. ISSN 0031-2746. JSTOR 23015376.

[6] Asante, S. K. B. (1975). "I.t.a. Wallace Johnson and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 7 (4): 631–646. ISSN 0018-2540. JSTOR 41971218.

[:0-7] Adi, Hakim; Sherwood, Marika (1995). The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (in English). New Beacon Books. ISBN 978-1-873201-12-1.

[8] Boyer, Antoine (16 March 2016). "AWOONOR-RENNER Bankole, Kweku". Maitron (in French). Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-04.

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