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Nana Akufo-Addo
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Person

Nana Akufo-Addo

b. 1944

President of Ghana from 2017 to 2025

Born
29 Mar 1944 · Accra
Part ofGhana1625 – todayPresbyterianism1514 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 29 Mar 1944BornBorn in Accra
  2. 1997 – 2001RoleMember of the 2nd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana
  3. 1997 – 2009RoleMember of the Parliament of Ghana
  4. 2001 – 2005RoleMember of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana
  5. 2001 – 2003RoleAttorney General of Ghana
  6. 2001 – 2003RoleMinister of Justice of Ghana
  7. 2003 – 2007RoleMinister for Foreign Affairs
  8. 2005 – 2009RoleMember of the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana
  9. 2008AwardOrder of the Volta
  10. 2016AwardMother Teresa Awards
  11. 2017 – 2025RolePresident of Ghana
  12. 2017AwardOrder of Mohammed
  13. 2017AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of the Ivory Coast
  14. 2017AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of the Lion
  15. 2017AwardOrder of the Pioneers of Liberia
  16. 2019AwardOrder of Excellence
  17. 2020 – 2022RoleChairperson of ECOWAS
  18. 2020 – 2022RoleChairperson
  19. 2021AwardOrder of the Republic of Serbia
  20. 2022AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1944 – today).

  1. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  3. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  5. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  6. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  8. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  9. 1956Suez Crisis
  10. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  12. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  16. 1968Prague Spring
  17. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  18. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  19. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  20. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  22. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  23. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  24. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  25. 1985Schengen Agreement
  26. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  27. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  28. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  30. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  32. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  33. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  34. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  35. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  36. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  37. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  38. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  39. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  40. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring

Biography

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ( a-KUUF-oh ah-DOH; born 29 March 1944) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the 13th president of Ghana from January 2017 to January 2025. He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the administration of then-president John Kufuor.

Akufo-Addo first ran for president in the year 2008 and again in 2012, both times as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He lost on both occasions to National Democratic Congress' candidates: John Evans Atta Mills in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama in 2012. After the 2012 general elections, he refused to concede and proceeded to court to challenge the electoral results, but the Supreme Court of Ghana affirmed Mahama's victory.

He was chosen as the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for a third time for the 2016 general elections, and this time he defeated incumbent John Dramani Mahama in the first round, winning with 53.85% of the votes. This marked the first time in a Ghanaian presidential history that an opposition candidate won an outright majority in the first round. It was the first time that an opposition candidate had unseated an incumbent president. Akuffo-Addo again secured an outright majority in the first round of the 2020 general elections (winning with 51.59% of the vote), defeating Mahama for a second time.

Akufo-Addo's government initially drew broad popularity from the Ghanaian public, promoting a nationalistic "Ghana Beyond Aid" agenda. The latter part of his tenure, however, was marked with the worst financial crises in Ghana in a generation, with inflation reaching up to 40% in both 2022 and 2023. His government attributed this to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine, but many observers pointed to mismanagement of public funds. Because he was term-limited, he peacefully handed over power to the NDC's Mahama on 7 January 2025 after the incumbent NPP lost power amid the unpopularity of his administration.

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