Mahama had his early education at Achimota school and then proceeded to Ghana secondary school (tamale, northern region) and the university of Ghana, legon , receiving a bachelor/s degree in history in 1981 and a postgraduate diploma in communication studies in 1986.
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John Dramani Mahama
His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, a wealthy rice farmer and teacher was the first Member of Parliament for the west Gonja constituency and first Regional commissioner of the northern region during the first republic under Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. Mahama’s father also served as a senior president advisor during Ghana’s third republic under Hilla Liman.
President John Mahama and Lordina Mahama
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As student he was a member of commonwealth hall (Legon). He also studied at the institute of social science, Moscow in the then soviet union, specializing in social psychology, obtaining a postgraduate degree in 1988.
Mahama was first elected to the parliament of Ghana in the 1996 elections to represent the Bole/Bamboo constituency for a four-year term. In April 1997, Mahama was appointed deputy minister of communications. He became substantive minister of communications in November 1998. A position he held until January 2001 when the national democratic congress (NDC), the then ruling party, handed over power to the new patriotic party government.
on 7 January 2009, Mahama became the vice-president of Ghana. He also served as the chairman of the nation economic management team, the armed forces council of Ghana, the decentralization and implementation committee and the Police council of Ghana in this capacity.
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In line with Ghana’s constitution, Mahama became president of Ghana on 24 July 2012 on the death of his predecessor, john Atta mills. In July 2012, he became the Ghana’s first president to have served at all levels of political office (Ghanaian and pan-African MP, deputy minister, minister, vice president and president).john Dramani Mahama is married to Lordina Dramani Mahama. Mahama has seven children. He is a Christian, born and raised a Presbyterian but now a member of assemblies of god. John Dramani Mahama’s first book, a memoir called my first coup d’état and other true stories from the lost decades of Africa, was published by Bloomsbury on 3 July 2012.
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