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State funeral of Kwame Nkrumah. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. [1] Nkrumah died of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. His body came back to Ghana where he had achieved independence in 1957 and had ruled the country approximately 13 years.
Category. v. t. e. Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. [1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966.
Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) [1] was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. [2][3][4] He was the longest-serving ...
In September 2017, Akufo-Addo launched the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, which will make secondary high school free for students in Ghana. The president states it is a "necessary investment in the nation's future workforce" and will help parents who are unable to pay for their children's education due to financial hardships.
e. This is a list of the heads of state of Ghana, from the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present day. [ 1 ] From 1957 to 1960 the head of state under the Constitution of 1957 was Elizabeth II, who was also the Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. [ 2 ] The monarch was represented in Ghana by a governor-general ...
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election. [ 2 ]
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938), [1] is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. [2] He was Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Evans Atta Mills at the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first transition of power in Ghana from a democratic party to another democratic party .
John Mahama. John Dramani Mahama (/ məˈhɑːmə / ⓘ; born 29 November 1958) [1] is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana [2] from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as president on 24 July 2012, following the death of his ...