Akufo-Addo, Nana

Akufo-Addo, Nana

(Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo), 1944–, Ghanaian lawyer, government official, and political leader, president of Ghana (2017–). Born into a prominent political family, he studied at the Univ. of Ghana and in Britain, then practiced law in France and Ghana. In the late 1970s he joined the People's Movement for Freedom and Justice, opposing Col. I. K. AcheampongAcheampong, Ignatius Kutu
, 1931–79, government official in Ghana, b. Kumasi. He taught before joining (1959) the army, where he advanced to colonel. In 1972, following a bloodless army coup that overthrew Kofi Abrefa Busia, he became chairman of the ruling National
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's military government. As a member of the New Patriotic party he was elected to parliament in 1996, and served as attorney general and justice minister (2001–3) and foreign minister (2003–7) under President KufuorKufuor, John Kofi Agyekum,
1938–, Ghanaian political leader. A lawyer educated at Lincoln's Inn, London, and Oxford, he served in Ghana's parliament (1969–72, 1979–81) between periods of military rule and was detained after the coups of 1972 and 1981.
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. He ran unsuccessfully for president twice (2008, 2012) before being elected to the office (2016), succeeding President MahamaMahama, John Dramani
, 1958–, Ghanaian political leader, grad. Univ. of Ghana, Legon (1981, 1986), Institute of Social Sciences, Moscow (1988). A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahama was elected to parliament in 1996, serving (1998–2001) as
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