My First Coup D'etat : : and Other True Stories From the Lost Decades of Africa
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Introduction : the "lost decades" -- My first coup d'etat -- The district commissioner's hat -- Of silence and solidarity -- Wild lions and little boys with catapults -- Full moon dance -- How I got my Christian name -- Sankofa -- Teenagers in Tamale -- Frozen fire -- Praise for the powerful -- Union government -- Truth stands -- Perilous crossings -- Ghana must go -- Providence -- Tovarisch -- Coda : return of hope-- Anaa?
Set against a backdrop of post-colonial Africa, the vice president of Ghana recounts how he became involved in the nation's political turmoil when his minister-of-state father disappeared during a coup and was imprisoned for over a year.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 318 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781608198597
1608198596
SUBJECTS
Mahama, John Dramani, -- 1958-
Vice-presidents -- Ghana -- Biography.
Ghana -- History -- 1957-
Ghana -- History -- Coup d'ťat, 1966.
Ghana -- Biography.