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Professor Samuel Kwadwo Boateng Asante (SKB Asante) has passed on. According to reports, the venerable lawyer died today, November 28, 2020.
A statement sighted by the GhanaWeb has the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Regional Integration in Africa where he served as Executive Director, announcing his demise.
“It is with profound sorrow that the Centre for Regional Integration in Africa (CRIA) Board of Trustees and Secretariat announce the loss of the beloved Founder of the Centre. May PROF SKB ASANTE rest in eternal peace.”
Professor SKB Asante, till his demise, was a member of the National Peace Council and a recipient of the Order of the Volta Award.
He is a product of the Achimota School and a former head of the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana.
He is credited with being one of the persons that helped framed the 1992 constitution.
Professor S.K.B. Asante, a product of Abuakwa State College, Achimota School, University of Ghana, and London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, is the Executive Director of both the Centre for Regional Integration in Africa (CRIA) and the S. K. B. Asante International Consultancy Services (SAICs); Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Professor and Mrs. S. K. B. Asante Educational Trust Fund; Member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Fiscal Studies; Professor of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), and a Fellow of Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
