Kojo Boakye-Djan

Major Kojo Boakye-Djan (or Kwadwo Boakye Djan ) was a Ghanaian military officer and coup plotter. He is known to have planned the coup that brought Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings to power in Ghana on 4 June 1979 with other junior officers.

Early life and education Boakye-Djan is the 19th of 56 siblings. He went on to study English Literature, Linguistics and Sociology at the University of Ghana. Their planning was still at an early stage and the 15 May 1979 abortive coup attempt by Flight Lieutenant Rawlings forced them into initiating theirs as some of them were being arrested on suspicion of plotting against the military government. It appears it was one of his members, Peter Tasiri who actually initiated the coup on the day. There appeared to be a lot of confusion and no clear leadership during the coup events. During an interview in 2017, he stated that he and Rawlings had grown apart and had not spoken to each other since the end of the AFRC rule.

Post AFRC Boakye-Djan went to the United Kingdom under a UNDP Fellowship for postgraduate studies.