President John Dramani Mahama has published and launched his first book with the arresting title MY FIRST COUP D’ETAT just over a month ago, a month filled with the sad news of the sudden, unexpected death of Ghana’s President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills. Indeed, the author, then the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, returned to Ghana after a successful book launch in the United States, and soon afterwards, he had to assume the highest office in the country when President Mills died suddenly on July 24, 2012. Understandably, therefore, any review of what would have been an interesting romana clef of a rising Ghanaian politician must take note of the fact that he has been thrust unexpectedly, into the most powerful job in Ghana. As a President now completing the unexpired term of his deceased predecessor, author John Dramani Mahama is due for confirmation as his party’s presidential candidate at the end of August this year, to take part in the presidential elections taking place in December 2012.
