Dixon Kwame Afreh
Dixon Kwame Afreh JSC (25 March 1933 – 17 February 2004) was a Ghanaian judge, academic, and former Deputy Electoral Commissioner. He was born in Kumasi and attended Achimota School from 1949 to 1954. He studied law at the University of Birmingham, finishing in 1958, and earned a Master of Laws at the University of London from 1958 to 1960. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in February 1960.
Afreh began his career as a lecturer at the University of Ghana’s Faculty of Law, teaching from 1962 to 1975. He became a senior lecturer, Acting Dean of the Faculty, and was Master of Commonwealth Hall. From 1975 to 1978 he served as Chief State Attorney at the Attorney General’s Department in Accra and was Director of Legal Education at the General Legal Council from 1973 to 1980. In 1979, he was the Commissioner for Information and Cocoa Affairs under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.
He later worked as Head of Administration and Financial Controller at the Pan-African News Agency in Dakar from 1981 to 1992. Afreh also served as Deputy Electoral Commissioner of the Electoral Commission of Ghana from 1992 to 1994.
In 1994, Afreh was appointed a Justice of the Court of Appeal. He was named a Supreme Court Judge by President John Kufuor on 19 March 2002 and served until September 2003. He presided over the Fast Track Court in April 2003, which sentenced two former ministers and a former ministry official to two years in prison.
Afreh was married to Rosalind and had five children. He died in Accra after an illness and was buried in Barekese in the Ashanti Region.
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