[ 2017-03-27 ]

Mahama begins book-reading tour
Former President John Dramani Mahama will Tuesday,
28 March, begin a series of lectures at various
universities in the country and also begin a round
of readings from his book titled “My First Coup
d'État and Other True Stories from the Lost
Decades of Africa”.

Mr Mahama announced the event in a tweet.

He said: “Starting a round of readings from my
book and a series of university lectures this
Tuesday, first at my alma mater University of
Ghana”.

My First Coup d'État and Other True Stories From
the Lost Decades of Africa, Mr Mahama's first book
and memoir, was published by Bloomsbury on 3 July
2012.

In the book, Mr Mahama recalls being the son of an
affluent government minister who spent his
childhood shuttling between his elite boarding
school, Achimota School in Accra, and his many
homes in his father's chauffeur-driven cars.

He recalls in its first chapter the day in 1966
when he learned of the ousting of Ghana's first
president, Kwame Nkrumah, in a military coup and
how his father suddenly went missing, not knowing
he had been imprisoned for more than a year.

Mr Mahama’s reading will take place at the J.H
Kwabena Nketia Conference Hall, Institute of
African Studies, University of Ghana, at exactly
3:00pm.

Source - classfmonline.com

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