Joseph Godson Amamoo

Joseph Godson Amamoo (born 29 August 1931) is a Ghanaian former journalist, academic, foreign service worker, and politician. He once served as editor for the Ghanaian Times, a lecturer, Ghana's ambassador to Hungary and also as a deputy minister for Health, and later deputy minister of Lands and Minerals Resource in the Second Republic.

Early life and education Joseph was born on 29 August 1931 at Swedru. He had his early education at Bekwai and Agona Swedru Methodist Schools completing in 1944. He won a scholarship to study at Achimota School from 1945 to 1950. He enrolled at the University of Ghana in 1952 on scholarship as well, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1956. He studied law at the Middle Temple, London he was called to the bar in 1965.

Career Prior to entering the University of Ghana he took up a one-year teaching appointment at Prempeh College, Kumasi. He was assistant editor of the Government's Weekly Review in 1956. That same year, he joined the teaching staff of Adisadel College, Cape Coast and taught there until 1957. In 1958 he published a book in London entitled: The New Ghana. Following the success of the publication he gave up his earlier plan of becoming a doctor to pursue a different career path; journalism. He subsequently became the London correspondent of the Ghanaian Times that same year until 1960. In 1961 he entered the Ghanaian foreign service as a public relations adviser to the Ghana High Commission in London. He was appointed Ghana's first ambassador to Hungary and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria in 1962 serving as one of the youngest ambassadors in the world. When the second republic was ushered in, he was elected to represent the Swedru-Nyakrom-Nkum constituency in parliament on the ticket of the Progress Party. He contested the seat against William Yaw Eduful of the National Alliance of Liberals, Alhaji Seidu Ben Alhassan of the People's Action Party, John Alex-Hamah of the United Nationalist Party and Edward Kobina Ferguson of the All People's Republican Party. That same year he was appointed the deputy minister for Health. He served together with Adam Amandi in this post until 1971. In 1971, he was appointed deputy minister of Lands and Minerals Resources. The ambassador: a novel (JAFINT, 2001); The Queen's Men (Xlibris Corporation, 7 March 2001); Ghana: 50 Year of Independence (Xlibris Corporation LLC, 2011); God's Hand at Work (Xlibris Corporation, 2013); My African Journey (Xlibris Corporation LLC, 2014); Africa: Rich But Poor (Xlibris, 30 December 2015); Racism: a Global Problem (AuthorHouse UK, 30 April 2016). who was made queen in Joseph's hometown Swedru. Together they had two daughters, who are both barristers by profession, and also five grandchildren. Breid Amamoo died on 11 January 2017, at the age of 87.

His interests included reading, walking, classical music, art galleries, museums, boxing, marriage and inter racial harmony.