Asoma Banda wives-Ghanaian business mogul and philanthropist, Alhaji Asoman Banda was born in June 1933 in Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Asoma Banda happens to be a well-known businessman and a role model to may upcoming business owners in Ghana and beyond.

Before earning his ordinary and advanced level certificate, Asoma Banda started his elementary education at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region and later attended the Kumasi Government Boys.

In London, Banda pursued a diploma in marketing/sales management in the year 1960. In order to broaden his knowledge and skills and succeed in the field he had chosen for himself, he later took additional courses in marketing, management, and shipping.

Banda later dedicated part of his life to the service of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) of London as a Director in charge of Africa and the Middle East.

He was supposedly born to supportive and well-to-do parents who never hesitated to use their resources to push Banda through school in order to give him a better future.

His family was business oriented and at an early age, he was entrusted with the arduous job of buying cattle from Mali, Niger and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and transporting them on foot to Kumasi and this exposed his diligence and devotion.

Alhaji Banda and his business partners established the OT Africa Line and Antrak Group of Companies (London and Ghana) in 1975.

His company has expanded to have over 146 branches in various nations because to his astute leadership and commercial sense, providing jobs for more than 500,000 people worldwide.

Banda is the owner and chairman of Antrak Air. It is the first company of its kind in the history of Ghana’s aviation industry and the only aviation company that is entirely owned by Ghanaians.

He has won so many awards over the years of his business career and has earned very good name for himself and his family. Banda became the first Ghanaian to own a ship as well as an aircraft. His shipping company won the Best Shipping line of the World Twice (1999/2000).

Some of the awards he has won over the years include; Companion of the Order of Volta by the State, Ghana’s Best Ever Transport and Logistics personality of the Year by the Charted Institute of Transport and Logistics in 2006, Honored for lifetime achievement by the Ghana Shippers Council in recognition  of his great strides in maritime industry, Entrepreneur of decade (2001) by EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation, Kwame Nkrumah Leaders Awards (2003) by All African Students Union in recognition of his leadership qualities and support for the youth and students in Africa and the Diaspora, Fellow of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi for acts of benevolence in 2002 during the University’s Special Golden Jubilee Congregation Award.

Other achievements includes; Conferment of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Entrepreneurship (Honoris Causa) by the University of Cape Coast, Conferment of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, West Africa Maritime lifetime Achievement Award 2009, Silver Award from the Brong Ahafo Region during the celebration of their 50th anniversary, and Golden Star award for Aviation Operation in West Africa 2009.

Alhaji Asoma Banda did not only contributed to the business world but used his wealth to effect changes in the society in order to help the nation transform.

At a cost of about one billion Cedis, Asoma Banda paid for the restoration, upkeep, and maintenance of the maternity wing of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in 1999.

He contributed ten million US dollars (about 70 billion Cedis) in cooperation with foreign partners to the construction of the Tema Container Terminal, which led to the creation of about 100 jobs.

Banda provided funding to the Nima Police Station in Accra for the creation of a female Cell and also each year, he feeds more than 3,000 people.

Alhaji Banda, a devoted and steadfast Muslim, spent more than $1 million USD to build a mosque at the Airport Residential Area.

How many wives does Alhaji Asoma Banda have?

Alhaji Banda has at least two wives even though most people believe that he has more than two wives. The names of his wives are not known to us at the moment.