Augustus Molade Akiwumi

Augustus Molade Akiwumi (7 April 1891 – 1985) was a barrister and judge who became the second Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 1958 and 1960 and an inaugural Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana between 1960 and 1961.

Early life Augustus Akiwumi was born in Lagos, Nigeria to a large Yoruba family of twelve children. He became a naturalised Ghanaian, after he relocated to the Gold Coast as a child with his father, S. O. Akiwumi. S. O. Akiwumi was the vice president of the Red Cross League. He was elected Speaker of the Parliament in February 1958 in the Dominion of Ghana. He became a judge in Ghana and was later appointed a Supreme Court Judge from July 1960 until his retirement from the bench in April 1961.

Family Akiwumi married Grace Aryee and, subsequently, Helen Kabuki Ocansey, both Ghanaians.