The younger generation should know: June 4 1979 was the beginning of Ghana s problems! modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The late Jerry Rawlings led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls. Whether you associate him with anti-imperialism, democracy or political violence, the fact is that he was able to retain military and popular control of Ghana for over 20 years.
Rawlings took power in a military coup on 31 December 1981, deposing a government led by Hilla Limann.
Rawlings immediately formed the Provisional National Defence Council. Military coups are relatively easy to stage. But sustaining them can prove difficult because they soon run out of political legitimacy, especially in the context of economic crisis. Rawlings did this by setting up structures that he described as the “highest form of democracy”.
How Jerry Rawlings used democratic structures to legitimise military rule sierraleonetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sierraleonetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Ghanaians today paid their last respects to Dr Emmanuel Evans-Anfom at a state funeral at the forecourt of the State House in Accra.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, as well as the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, were in attendance to bid farewell to the national icon who was the second Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the first President of the Ghana Medical Association.
It was a solemn event with various tributes eulogising the surgeon, academic and statesman, who was born in 1919 and died this year, for all his contributions to the advancement of health care and the development of the country.
Mischievous Kofi Diawuo modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.