John Dramani Mahama
John Dramani Mahama (born November 29, 1958 in Bole Bamboi ) is a Ghanaian politician. He was President of the West African country of Ghana from July 2012 to January 2017 . As Vice President at the time, he took over the office after the death of John Atta Mills and was confirmed in office in the presidential elections in December 2012 and was defeated by his then opponent Nana Akufo-Addo in December 2016 . He is a member of the NDC .
Life
John Dramani Mahama attended the Achimota Primary School in Accra and the Ghana Secondary School in Tamale in the Northern Region . In his autobiographical work My First Coup d'Etat - And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa , published in 2012, Mahama described his experiences in this "elite school", which he hated, in which the students were drilled in the spirit of the old colonial power Great Britain. His father was State Secretary in the government of Kwame Nkrumah and the military coup against this first President of Ghana, in the wake of which his father was briefly imprisoned, is one of the formative experiences of his childhood and youth, according to him. In 1981 he received his bachelor's degree in history from the University of Ghana at Legon and in 1986 the postgraduate diploma in communication studies from the same university.
After studying social psychology in 1988 at the Institute for Social Sciences at Moscow University , he worked in the press department of the Japanese embassy in Ghana from 1991 to 1995 and from 1995 to 1996 in the Ghanaian country office of Plan International , an international children's aid organization.
His political career began with the election as a member of parliament for the NDC in December 1996 in the constituency of Bole-Bamboi in the Northern Region. He was able to win this constituency in December 2000 and December 2004. From April 1997 to November 1998 he was Deputy Minister for Communications and from November 1998 to January 2001 he held this ministerial office himself. Mahama has been a member of the Pan-African Parliament and chairman of the West African parliamentary group there since 2004 .
On January 7, 2009, he was sworn in as Vice President and on July 24, 2012, after the death of President Atta Mills , he was sworn in as interim president. On December 7, 2012, he achieved an absolute majority in the first round of national presidential elections.
Private
Mahama grew up in a mixed religious family of Muslims and Christians. He himself was brought up in the Presbyterian spirit, but has been a member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God since marrying his wife, Lordina Mahama . He is the father of seven children. He is fluent in English , Akan (Twi and Fante ), Ga , Gonja and Hausa ; He also has a good knowledge of Russian and the language of the Ewe .
literature
- John Dramani Mahama , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2013 from May 21, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ghana's President Mahama confirmed in office , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 11, 2012, p. 5.
- ^ Opposition leader wins presidential election. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 9, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. starafrica.com, accessed August 4, 2012
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography of John Mahama ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Peace FM online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahama, John Dramani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bole Bamboi |