Nigeria: A Deputy Governor in Village Square

Little was known about Flight Lt John Jerry Rawlings of Ghana until 1979 when he was first arrested and tried on charges of a coup plot. While the trial was on, his associates sprang a big surprise and freed him from detention.

Upon his release he staged another coup leading him to form a military government which enabled him to initiate revolutionary changes that have since been described as the second independence of Ghana after the one the founding president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah midwifed in 1957.

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