Ghana celebrities
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Anselmus Kludze
Ghanaian judge
Anselmus Kodzo Paaku Kludze (1934 – 5 October 2013) was a Ghanaian lawyer, author[1] and academic who served as a judge for the Supreme Court of Ghana and was also a professor.[2] He was an Emeritus Professor of law[3] at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States, a chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Ghana,[4] a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.[5]
Early life and education
Kludze was born in 1934 to Stephen Komla Kludze. He hailed from Gbi-Kpeme, Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana.[6] His father died at early age while he was studying at Adisadel College, Cape Coast on a government scholarship, his uncle, Anku Kludze however supported him financially to complete his secondary education.[7] After his secondary education, he entered the University of Ghana where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963.[5][8] He continued at the Ghana School of Law where
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Ave Kludze
American engineer
Ave K. P. Kludze Jr.[1] is an American aerospace engineer and civil servant, specializing in complex systems engineering[2] and design. He is a senior NASA Spacecraft Systems Engineer.[3]
Early life and education
Kludze was born in Hohoe, in the Volta Region of Ghana, the son of Anselmus Kludze, a legal reformer who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and Comfort Brempong who worked with the Bank of Ghana. He grew up in Dansoman-Sahara, a suburb of Accra. His love of science began at an early age; his parents once remarked that they were fearful to leave him at home in case he dismantled the radio.[4] At friends’ houses, he would take apart their televisions to see how they worked. By his own admission, Kludze's fascination with aviation began with a trip to the airport in Accra as a young boy. His father had intended him to become a lawyer but supported him regardless in his ambitions.[5]
He emigrated to the United States in the late 1980s with only a high school diploma
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Profile: Ghana's rocket man
Awe Kludze never imagined he would command a Nasa spacecraft
On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, BBC News asks one of Africa's pioneering scientists, Dr Ave Kludze, of the US space agency Nasa what inspired his stellar career and what he thinks of the standard of science teaching in Africa today.
As a young boy I was always very curious.My parents didn't like to leave me at home alone, because they knew I would dismantle the radio.
Even at my friends' houses, I would try to take the television apart, to find out how it worked.
But my life changed the first time I went to the airport in Accra. I saw an aeroplane landing and taking off.
I knew then that I wanted to be pilot.
From that day, everything I read was scientific. At school, I read science subjects.
My father wanted me to be a lawyer. But he supported my ambitions. So I was lucky.
But then, when I was 17, I found out that I could not fulfil my dream. I could not become a pilot.
The reason was that my brother, my father and my mother all wore gl
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