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John Mensah Sarbah (3 June 1864 – 27 November 1910)〔S. Tenkorang, "John Mensah Sarbah, 1864–1910", in ''Transactions of the HYistorical Society of Ghana'', Vol. XIV, No. 1, Legon, June 1973 (pp. 65–78), pp. 65, 76. Some other sources (including Magnus Sampson, 1969) give 6 November 1910 as the date of Mensah Sarbah's death.〕 was a lawyer and political leader in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). ==Life== John Mensah Sarbah was born on Friday, 3 June 1864, in Anomabu, in the Fante Confederacy in the Gold Coast. He was the eldest son of John Sarbah (1834-1892), a merchant of Anomabu and Cape Coast and a member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, and his wife Sarah.〔Magnus Sampson, ''Makers of Modern Ghana: From Philip Quarcoo to Aggrey. Volume One'', Accra: Anowuo Educational Publications, 1969, pp. 119-29.〕 Mensah Sarbah was educated at the Cape Coast Wesleyan School (later renamed – by Mensah Sarbah himself – as Mfantsipim School) and then at Taunton School in Somerset, England, matriculating in 1884.〔 He subsequently entered Lincoln's Inn in London to train as a barrister, and was called to the English bar in 1887 – the first African from his country to qualify in this way.〔〔L. H. Ofosu-Appiah, (Sarbah, John Mensah ), ''Dictionary of African Christian Biography''.〕 In 1897, along with J. W. Sey, J. P. Brown and J. E. Casely Hayford, Mensah Sarbah co-founded the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society, which became the main political organisation that led organised and sustained opposition against the colonial government, laying the foundation for Ghanaian independence.〔("Ghana - Early Manifestations of Nationalism" ), ''Library of Congress A Country Study: Ghana.〕〔Nti, Kwaku, ("Action and Reaction: An Overview of the Ding Dong Relationship between the Colonial Government and the People of Cape Coast" ), ''Nordic Journal of African Studies'' 11(1): 1-37 (2002).〕 Mensah Sarbah was appointed a member of the Legislative Council in 1901, and was re-appointed in 1906.〔 In the first birthday honours of King George V, Mensah Sarbah was recognized with the award of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 1910, a few months before his sudden death at the age of 46, on Sunday, 27 November 1910.〔〔Tenkorang (1973), p. 76.〕〔"Sarbah, John Mensah", in Keith A. P. Sandiford, ''A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora'', Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 401.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Mensah Sarbah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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