Ghana has trained only 11,400 Lawyers since 1877, according to Dr. Kwaku Boadu. On average, it means Ghana trains only 77 Lawyers a year.
Ghana has been training lawyers for over 148 years, but it is still obvious that lawyers are scarce and hard to hire. Since the 1877 precolonial era, Ghana has been training lawyers, and as of 2025, we are still on whether we need too many lawyers or technical people. The question we should actually be asking is whether our education system actually produces well-qualified technical experts or just not advanced enough to support the country’s growing need for technical expertise.
The actual average number of Lawyers who graduate every year is 77 in total per year, compared to the thousands of graduates from other fields over the years is obvious that Ghana has not trained enough lawyers for the past 148 years.
If of the over 35.1 million population, only 11,400 are lawyers, then justice will totally be delayed. As of 2025, the ratio between lawyers and the population is 1:3,078, one to three thousand. Meanwhile, the Ghana School of Law keeps increasing the requirements for lawyers to be called to the bar; this is a danger to the nation’s justice system and a threat to the security of the country.
According to the Ghana School of Law records, Ghana started training lawyers in 1958 when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah first President of the Republic, established the University of Ghana’s School of Law and the Ghana School of Law, making 1958 the year formal legal education began in the country. Before 1958, aspiring lawyers from Ghana had to travel abroad for their training, primarily to the Inns of Court in England