Korsah won the Cape Coast seat in the 1927 Gold Coast general election. He was one of nine Africans to be represented in the Legislative Assembly at the time.[4] He was re-elected for the same seat in 1931 and 1935 general elections.[5]
After the Kulungugu attack on President Kwame Nkrumah in August 1962,[10] Sir Arku Korsah presided over the trial of five defendants. At the end of that trial, three of the accused were found not guilty and this displeased the Nkrumah government. Nkrumah sacked Sir Arku as Chief Justice in December 1963 unconstitutionally.[2]
Family
He was married to Kate Ethel Amanuah BANNERMAN-HYDE. Their five children were: Diana (1924- ), Evangeline Mabel (1926-2013), Roger Kweku Andoh (1927-2017), Annie Barbara Gyaanuah (1931- ) and Kate Ethel Esi Amanuah (1935-2013). His only son, Roger who was a high court judge in Ghana, moved to Zimbabwe where he became a judge on the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. He died in February 2017.[11]
^Daniel Miles McFarland, Historical Dictionary of Ghana, Scarecrow Press, 1995, pp. 106–07.
^Edsman, Björn M. (1979). Lawyers in Gold Coast politics c. 1900-1945 : from Mensah Sarbah to J.B. Danquah (First ed.). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. p. 132. ISBN978-9155409609.