“Jerry John Rawlings who died after a short illness in Accra on Thursday morning, was known as an influential figure in Ghanaian politics.”
Christian Akorlie, noted that, Rawlings oversaw “Ghana’s transition to multi-party democracy, winning election in 1992 and 1996 before stepping down in 2001…Today, Ghana is considered one of West Africa’s most mature democracies and regularly sees power change hands between its two main parties…“A great tree has fallen, and Ghana is poorer for this loss,” President Akufo-Addo said in a statement on Rawlings’ death.”
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David Anderson says
Wow. He was still alive? Amazing, isnt’ it, when you assume somebody died years ago but they didn’t, you find they just died yesterday.
Rawlings was one of the old wolves of the independence mvts in Africa.