Adam Babah-Alargi
Hajj Adam Babah-Alargi | |
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| Born | 25 December 1927 Korle Bu Teaching Hospital |
Hajj Adam Babah-Alargi (25 December 1927 – 4 November 2019)Rotary Club.[5]
Early life and education
Babah-Alargi was born on 25 December 1927 at
Career
Babah-Alargi joined Bolten Hennesy and Partners in 1958 after his college education. Around that period, the company had been charged with projects in
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as the only Ghanaian engineer in the team. The project saw the building of the Surgical, Maternity, and Children's wards among others. In 1965 the then president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah engaged him to restructure the presidential stand at the Black Star Square as the president thought it was too high. The president however, was unable to use the stand which was to be due in early 1966 as a result of the overthrow of his government in early 1966. In 1967 he founded his own consultancy firm by the name of BAB Consultancy.[9] The firm was the first indigenous consultancy established by a Ghanaian in his field of expertise. It was therefore the first indigenous engineering consultancy founded in Ghana.[5] He worked on many projects in the following years and also served as a consultant for the Bank of Ghana, the National Investment Bank, and Messrs SKOA. He retired in 1987 and the business was handed over to his staff.[7][8]
He together with ten others founded the Rotary Club of Accra-West. In 1987, the late Michael Asafo-Boakye, the then District Governor, appointed him as the District Governor's special representative to help form the
Death
He died in November 2019 at the age of 91. His funeral was officiated by the National Chief Imam Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu. He was the oldest living rotarian in Ghana prior to his death.[7][8][10]
References
- ^ "Directory - American Society of Civil Engineers". American Society of Civil Engineers. 1974: 45.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Engineer Behind Korle-Bu, Black Starr Square, Queens Hall Dies At 92". PeaceFM. 4 November 2019. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ "Ghana Gazette, issue 8-59". Government printer. 1976: 291.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Journal - Society of Engineers, Volumes 50-51". Society of Engineers (London, England). 1959: 46.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b "Meet Hajj Adam Babah-Alargi, the first Ghanaian to establish indigenous engineering consultancy". The Ghana Report. 2019-11-05. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ISBN 9780226653976.
- ^ a b c d Ivan Heathcote-Fumador,"Engineer behind Korle-Bu, Black Star Square, Queens Hall dies at 92" Archived 2019-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, Ghanaweb, 4 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d Abaka Kakaraba Darbah,"‘Voluntarism more rewarding than accolades’" Archived 2019-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, Graphic Online, 09 October 2015.
- ^ "West Africa, Issues 2561-2587". West Africa Publishing Company Limited. 1973: 1464.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Engineer behind Korle-Bu, Black Starr Square, Queens Hall dies at 92". The Independent, Ghana. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.