Ghana: Elections As Usual

7 December 2012
analysis

Ghanaians are voting for the next president of the longest-lived republic in their country's history.

Despite nostalgia in some quarters for the country's first republic, under the charismatic Pan-Africanist leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the truth is that it is only this fourth republic that has seen one civilian administration pass on the baton of leadership to another without military interruption.

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