Bankole Awoonor Renner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 June 1898 |
| Died | (1970年5月27日)27 May 1970 |
| Alma mater | Oxford University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Kweku Bankole Awoonor-Renner (6 June 1898 – 27 May 1970) was a Ghanaian politician, journalist, anti-colonialist and Pan-Africanist.[1][2] In 1921 Awoonor-Renner travelled to the United States (US) to study journalism at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Whilst studying in the US Awoonor-Renner joined The Communist Party.[2]
Bankole Awoonor-Renner was born in Elmina in the Gold Coast, a British colony in West Africa. His father Peter Awoonor-Renner was a lawyer and first leader of the Gold Coast bar.[3] Awoonor-Renner attended boarding school in Cape Coast.
In 1925 Awoonor-Renner travelled from the US to the Soviet Union along with nine other black men to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV).[4] He is considered to be the first Black African to study in the Soviet Union. He left the Soviet Union for Great Britain in 1927 where he further his studies in journalism at the Institute of Journalists in London, becoming the first African to graduate from the Institute.
On his return to the Gold Coast Awoonor-Renner became editor of the Gold Coast Leader newspaper.[5]
In 1934 Awoonor-Renner and several others, including Ellis Brown, I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson and Robert Benjamin Wuta-Ofei, founded the West African Youth League (WAYL) in the Gold Coast.[6] Awoonor-Renner was elected President of the WAYL.
He converted to Islam in 1942, he won a seat on the Accra city council as part of the Moslem Party.
In 1945 he attended the fifth Pan-African Congress, in Manchester, representing the Friends of African Freedom Society.[7]
Initially a colleague of Kwame Nkrumah, he helped Ghana's first president found the Convention People's Party (CPP) being imprisoned alongside him in 1950. Later he broke with Nkrumah and established the Moslem Association Party.[8]
アウーノール=レナーはロンドンで妻オラビシ・アウーノール=レナー(旧姓アラキヤ)と出会い、1944年4月に結婚した。二人の間には4人の息子と1人の娘の計5人の子供が生まれた。
1960年代に政治的多元主義が禁止された後、アウーノール・レナーは政界を引退し、貧困のうちに亡くなった。