Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah
Joseph Kwame Kingsley-Nyinah was a Ghanaian judge who served as a justice of the Court of Appeal and also as the Electoral Commissioner for Ghana. Early life and education Kingsley-Nyinah was born on 21 August 1922 at Akokuaso which is near Akim Oda in the Eastern Region of Ghana (then Gold Coast. He was the first child of Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah and Felicia Marfo. His father was a police officer and was transferred to various stations. This led to his education being in different places. He started his basic education at Akuse before continuing at the Government Boys' School at Cape Coast. He completed his basic education at the Achimota Primary School and went on to the Achimota College which he completed in 1942. He worked as a teacher and then a law clerk before he proceeded to the United Kingdom in 1947 to study law at the Middle Temple, London. He was called to the Bar in June 1953. Career Kingsley-Nyinah returned to the Gold Coast where he was called to the Bar. He went on to set up his own law firm, Obuadum Chambers in 1954. He was appointed as a magistrate at Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti Region