Ghanaian naturopath Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, called to the Gambian Bar in 2024, joined the Ghana Bar on 9 October 2026, according to a statement from the African Naturopath Report.
The statement said his name appeared on the published list for Ghana’s 63rd Call to the Bar, at which the General Legal Council admitted 1,568 new lawyers at a ceremony in Teshie, Accra.
Nyarkotey Obu qualified through the Gambia Law School in Banjul and was called to the Bar in The Gambia in November 2024. In a 2025 newspaper feature, he wrote that his Gambian legal education cost him about $30,000, and that he had to resit Legislative Drafting three times before passing.
Being called in both countries does not mean he can practise in both. Foreign graduates called to the Gambian Bar are barred by statute from practising law in The Gambia, a Daily Graphic feature on Ghanaian students at the Gambia Law School has noted.
Nyarkotey Obu leads a naturopathic training college in Ghana and is founding president of the African Naturopathic Federation. He has long campaigned for laws to regulate traditional and alternative medicine. In 2023 he lectured in The Gambia on legislation to regulate the country’s traditional healers.
The statement said he would use his legal training to work on practitioner regulation, training standards, professional accountability and patients’ rights in complementary and alternative medicine.
