Isaac Chinebuah
{{Short description|Ghanaian politician and academic (1929–2006)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Isaac K. Chinebuah
| image =
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| order = 20th
| office = Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)
| term_start = 1979
| term_end = 1981
| predecessor = Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi
| successor = Dr. Obed Asamoah
| constituency = Nzema East
(now Ellembelle in 4th Republic)
| majority =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|10|7}}
| birth_place = Tarkwa
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|6|8|1929|10|7}}
| party = People's National Party
| relations =
| spouse = Jane Chinebuah
| children = 8
| residence =
| occupation = Academic
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Dr.Isaac K. Chinebuah (7 October 1929 – 8 June 2006){{Cite web |title=Index Ch |url=https://www.rulers.org/indexc2.html |website=Rulers Online}} was an academic and the foreign minister in the People's National Party (PNP) government of the Third Republic of Ghana.
Career
Dr. Chinebuah was a former headmaster of Achimota School from 1963 to 1966{{cite web|url=http://www.newtimesonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3455&Itemid=181 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529031511/http://www.newtimesonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3455&Itemid=181 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 29, 2007 |title=Chinebuah's Death Announced |date=29 June 2006 |accessdate=2007-04-10|work=NewTimesOnline |publisher=New Times Corporation}} and also a former lecturer at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon.{{cite news|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=106592 |title=Delegation informs Kufuor of Chinebuah's funeral |accessdate=2007-04-18 |work=General News of Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |publisher=Ghana Home Page}}
He was a Minister for Education and Information in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party government in the First Republic of Ghana.
Dr. Chinebuah became the Member of Parliament for Nzema East (now Ellembelle) constituency after the 1979 elections. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the PNP government by Dr. Hilla Limann in the Third Republic from 1979 until its overthrow in a coup d'état on December 31, 1981. He became the running mate to Dr. Hilla Limann during the 1992 presidential election.
He died at the age of 78 on June 8, 2006. He was married to Jane Chinebuah. He had eight children.
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{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Nzema East
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{{s-ttl|title=Foreign Minister | years=1979 – 1981}}
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Category:Ghanaian MPs 1979–1981
Category:20th-century Ghanaian educators
Category:Academic staff of the University of Ghana
Category:Heads of schools in Ghana