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This 5-page paper provides an overview of Ghana's politics and issues the nation faces. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the west and the eastern border roughly at the geologic formation known as the Benue Trough), countries such as Nigeria, Liberia and the Ivory Coast seem to be better known
- at least, they tend to be featured more in the international media though not in a very positive light. Another African nation in this western continental collection is Ghana.
Not as infamous as its western African neighbors, Ghana is possibly best-known as the nation that U.S. President Barack Obama visited in 2009 (rather than visiting Kenya, where his late
father was born and raised). Obama and the United States likes Ghana because Ghana is one African nation that embraces democracy versus despotism.
Ghana has also been known for the somewhat volatile presidential election race in 2008, during which John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress party won the leadership mantle,
following a closely contested run-off vote (Catsoulis). In that election, Mills defeated Nana Akufo-Addo with the New Patriotic Party (which had governed Ghana since 2000) (Polgreen). That election, incidentally, represented
"the second democratic transfer of power from one party to another since Ghana returned to elected government in 1992" (Polgreen). The concern here, however, is that Ghanas democracy is still
a young one - only a generation ago, the nation was under authoritative rule. Ghana was created from a merger between the British
Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory and, in 1957, became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence (Central Intelligence Agency). The brief history of this
nation was volatile; it wasnt until Jerry Rawlings too power in the early 1980s, approved a new constitution and restored multiparty politics in the early 1990s that Ghana became somewhat
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