Episode 47: Jerry Rawlings’s Legacy, and Ghana’s Long Road to Democracy

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 ~ Edwin Okong'o

Jerry Rawlings visits AMISOM 04 — *Former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana visits the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in 2004. Photo: AMISOM Public Information used under CC0 1.0*

Kwesi Wilson, a Ghanaian-born news analyst and professor of communication, joins Africa Straight Talk to explain the complicated legacy of former President Jerry John Rawlings, who died in November. A former Ghana Air Force fighter pilot, Rawlings navigated the country’s bloody coup-ridden early decades of independence to become head of state in 1981.

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