Ghana : Africa’s ‘Warrior King’

Ghana has done it. Who said Pan-Africanism was dead in practice, alive only as an abstract concept? Ghana is the home of Pan-Africanism, and surely one of the vision’s founding fathers, Kwame Nkruma, must be smiling from his grave. Ghana held an election many have commended as having been free and fair. Shattering myths, of Africa’s apparent ineptitude, in governance matters especially on matters to do with the conduct of credible elections. Or that even if the opposition wins an election the incumbent will need a whole armed battalion to remove them.  They cling on in the name of a sterile concept popularised as ‘African democracy.’ Democracy either delivers or it does not. In Ghana it has delivered! The announcement of National Democratic Congress’s, John Atta Mills as the winner of the just ended election, is something for any Pan-Africanist to savour.