Colleagues

Comrades &
Ideological
Authors
-Botsio
-Adamafio
-Batsa
-Ikoku
-Tettegah, Hadjor &
Tetteh 

Of the 'comrade-authors,' Botsio had the longest standing relationship with Nkrumah.  He was a confidant as far back as 1946 in London where he served as treasurer to the West African National Secretariat.  He traveled from England to Africa with Nkrumah in 1947 and became the Secretary of the Convention Youth Organization, a wing of the United Gold Coast Convention; the first editor of Nkrumah's Accra Evening News (Ghana Yearbook 1959); and later the first General-Secretary of the CPP.  Botsio remained close to Nkrumah until the end of his life with a brief reprise during the ascent of Adamafio within the CPP. 

Botsio served as a Minister of Education and Social Welfare from 1952 through 1953; Minister of State from 1954 through 1958; External Affairs from 1958 through 1959; a Minister of State from 1959 through 1961; Foreign Minister from 1963 through 1965; and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission from 1965 until the coup (Apter, 1972; Thompson, W. S. 1968).  The Ghanaian Times once reported on Botsio as the Minister of Agriculture.