Born on 1 July 1901 at Aripede (about thirty miles north of Accra), Clement Anderson Akrofi became a noted educator, theologian and linguist. A leading authority on Twi, he advocated its adoption as Ghana’s official language. He was educated at Basel Mission schools and the Akuporon Training College, where he returned as a teacher in 1923. His famous grammar text, Twi Kasa Mmara, was published in 1938. After his retirement from teaching in 1956, he devoted his energy to the Presbyterian church and produced a modern Twi Bible in 1965. Akrofi was honoured by the British Government with an MBE in 1944 and received an honorary doctorate from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, West Germany in 1960. He remained a staunch supporter of Ghanaian independence and was often consulted on political matters by such Ghanaian leaders as Joseph Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah. He died on his 66th birthday in 1967.