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Brodie-Mends enjoyed reading and writing. He was a keen football enthusiast who supported the Cape Coast
Venomous Vipers. He was an enthusiast of lawn tennis. He also enjoyed playing draughts with the fishermen in Idan Guam, a fishing village in the
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and its UNIGOV concept, for which he was incarcerated for three months. When Ghana was ushered into civilian rule in 1979 he became a founding member of the
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journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a member of the first
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in 1957. He was called to the bar in 1960. While in
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