A short history of Yagbonwura Timu, aka J A Braimah

Joseph Adam Braimah (also known as Kabuchewura Joseph Adam Braimah, 1916–1987) was a Ghanaian politician, author, and chief. In 1951, he was the first person from the Northern Region to be appointed as a Minister in Ghana and also a Member of Parliament. He was the first Ghanaian minister to resign from his position. Braimah was born on 31 August 1916 and hails from Kpembe in the Savannah Region (formerly Northern Region) of Ghana. He was a Minister for Communications and Work during Nkrumah's regime. He was the National Vice Chairman of the United Party in 1957. In 1950, Braimah was appointed a member of the Legislative Council, and in 1951, Kwame Nkrumah appointed him as a Cabinet Minister. He was a founding member of the Northern People's Party, which was a political party founded by politicians of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast to contest the general election in 1954. In 1959, he became a member of the Convention Peoples Party. He was the Member of Parliament for Gonja East in the then Northern Region (now Savannah Region) of Ghana. Braimah had 11 wives and 52 children. He is the father of Salifu Adam Braimah. Atchulo Samuel William Braimah is the father of Joseph Adam Braimah. He became the Yagbonwura after serving as Kpembewura when the Yagbon skin was vacant. Braimah died in the 1985/6 at the age of 70