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John Agyekum Kufuor Biography
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Politician, lawyer
Kufuor, John Agyekum, photograph.
John Agyekum Kufuor—often dubbed the "gentle giant" because of his imposing height of six feet, three inches—was elected president of Ghana in and re-elected in His election victory as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ended almost two decades of Jerry John Rawlings' rule and was hailed by various commentators as pivotal to the country's transition to democracy and as such was seen as a historic moment for the African nation.
It was the first time that Ghana—the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in —witnessed one elected government hand the reins of power to another through the means of the ballot box.
Ghanaian politics coalesce around two political traditions deriving from the country's pre-independence period, the Nkrumah and the Danquah-Busia traditions.
Kwame Nkrumah (–)—later to become the first leader of an indep