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My first coup d'etat : memories from the lost decades of Africa / John Dramani Mahama.

by Mahama, John Dramani, 1958-

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Bloomsbury, 2012.

Mahama, John Dramani, 1958-

Politicians -- Ghana -- Biography.

Ghana -- History -- 1957-

Ghana -- History -- Coup d'etat, 1966.

Ghana -- Biography.

9781408832684 (pbk.)

1408832682 (pbk.)

318 p. : map ; 24 cm.

My First Coup D'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence 'lost decades' of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. My First Coup D'Etat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa's success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama's is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his stories work on many levels - as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation.

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