Yakubu Tali

{{Short description|Ghanaian politician}}

{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Tolon Naa Alhaji

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| office = {{flag|Ghana}}ian
High Commissioner
to {{flag|Nigeria}}

| term_start = 1965

| term_end = 1968

| predecessor =:es:George Eric Kwabla Doe

| successor =:es:Jacob Owusu-Akyeampong

| office2 = {{flag|Ghana}}ian
Ambassador
to {{flag|Yugoslavia}}

| term_start2 = May 1970

| term_end2 = 1972

| predecessor2 = Joseph Boye Lomotey

| successor2 = K. Y. Boafo{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbYwAQAAIAAJ&q=Yugoslavia+Boafo|title=Ghana Business Guide|date=1972|publisher=Business Publications.|language=en}}

| office3 = {{flag|Ghana}}ian
High Commissioner
to {{flag|Sierra Leone}}

| term_start3 = 1972

| term_end3 = 1972

| predecessor3 = Vo-Na Imoru

| successor3 = Michael Kweku Gbagonah

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| birth_date = 1916

| birth_place = Tali, a village 32 kilometers from Tamale, Ghana

| death_date = June 1986 (aged 69 or 70)

| death_place = Tamale, Ghana

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Tolon Naa Alhaji Yakubu Alhassan Tali (1916–1986) was a Ghanaian politician, Paramount Chief of the Tolon Traditional Area and founding member of the Northern People's Party.

From 1965 to 1968, he was Ghana's High Commissioner to Lagos (Nigeria). He was Ghana's Ambassador to Belgrade (Yugoslavia) during the Second Republic.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlAdAQAAMAAJ&q=Haj+Yugoslavia+May+1970+Bulgaria+|title=Diplomatic Corps of Belgrade|date=1971|publisher=Međunarodna politika.|language=en}}

In 1972, he was appointed Ghana's High Commissioner to Sierra Leone. He was also accredited to Guinea as an Ambassador.{{cite news |url=http://elections.peacefmonline.com/pages/politics/201404/196259.php | title=Nana Addo Celebrates The Life Of Alhaji Yakubu (PHOTOS) | work=Peacefmonline.com | date=12 April 2014 | access-date=23 December 2014 | location=Accra Ghana}}{{cite book | title=Chasing the Elephant Into the Bush: The Politics of Complacency | publisher=AuthorHouse | author=Arthur Kennedy | year=2009 | page=196 | isbn=9781449037048}}