President Milles

Today the President of the Republic of Ghana died due to a throat cancer.

President Milles was leading the country for almost four years and he was running for his second term and trying to win the elections that are going to happen in December 2012.

Although the President was constantly going to the US for checkups, before today most of the Ghanaians didn´t know what was the reason of the President´s illness once he had never officially presented it.

A couple of hours after I heard the news I went out to get some bread and I noticed that all the radios were turned on and people were listening to the news. When I got back home I talked to Anita (the cook) about the President:

-          So Anita, do you think he was a good President?

-          Oh yes of course! He was a Christian; he used to pray a lot for Ghanaians and for Ghana. He is a good man.

It was interesting to see that the reason for her to consider him a good President was not because of what he did but because he was Christian.

I also learnt from Edem (he works at the NGO that I work) that the President was a loved man for most of the people in living in the communities. He was actually called “Asomdwehene” where “asomdwe” means Peace and “hene” means King – so he was known as the “Peace King” because he was a very peaceful politician.

24/07/2012