Kobina Sekyi, as per history was a man of many attributes but one thing that stood out about him was his aversion of European or western clothes. As a lawyer, it is said that never did Kobina Sekyi wore European clothes to court as he was always draped in a local outfit. But this commendable act of nationalism that existed in colonial Ghana will not be permitted in independent Ghana, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian Professor has said. “I learnt that Kobena Sekyi was the first lawyer in the British colony (Gold Coast) to appear in court in a traditional African cloth. “Now that we are independent, I doubt that our independent courts will tolerate a Ghanaian lawyer wearing traditional clothes in an independent Ghanafuo court.

Source: GhanaWeb April 06, 2021 06:56 UTC