Biography of ja kufuor kingong
Biography of ja kufuor kingong
Biography of ja kufuor kingong sa!
John Kufuor
President of Ghana from to
For his son, the Ghanaian businessman, see John Addo Kufuor.
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December )[1] is a Ghanaian politiciana who served as the tenth president of Ghana from to [2] He was the fifth chairperson of the African Union from to [3] and his victory over John Atta Mills at the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first transition of power in Ghana from a democratic party to another democratic party.[4]
Kufuor's career has been spent on the liberal-democratic[2] side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party.[2] As a lawyer and businessman, he was a minister in Kofi Abrefa Busia's Progress Party government[1] during Ghana's Second Republic, and a Popular Front Party opposition frontbencher during the Third Republic.
In the Fourth Republic, Kufuor stood as the New Patriotic Part