J. E. S. De Graft-Hayford
John Ebenezer Samuel de Graft-Hayford (1912–2002) was Ghana's first Ghanaian Chief of the Air Staff. He became the first indigenous Air Force Commander in Ghana and Black Sub-Saharan Africa. He was also acting Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) for a brief period in 1962.
He was a Ghanaian born in the United Kingdom. Apart from being of Ghanaian origin, he had Dutch and German maternal blood lines. Among a host of other earlier achievements he showed an excellence in sport, particularly the art of boxing.
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