Ghana Votes

Friday, July 27, 2012

Democracy in Ghana-In rude health

 
The demise of a president reveals the soundness of the state he leaves behind
 
AFRICAN leaders dying in office is often a sign of rottenness: years of misrule capped only by a hushed-up death. But on July 24th, within hours of the sudden end from cancer of Ghana's president, John Atta Mills, his deputy, John Mahama, was sworn in with impressive constitutional calmness to replace him.
 
 

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