http://www.metafilter.com/tags/jerryrawlings Posts tagged with 'jerryrawlings' at MetaFilter. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:45:37 -0800 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:45:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/111130/An%2Dunusual%2Dcoup%2Ddetat <a href="http://www.modernghana.com/news/369431/1/ndc-committed-to-31st-dec-revolution.html">Today</a> is the 30th anniversary of Flt. Lt. <a href="http://jjrawlings.wordpress.com/2001/01/07/jerry-john-rawlings-former-president-of-ghana/">Jerry Rawling</a>'s <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/ghana-coup.htm">coup d'etat</a> catapulting him into <a href="http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2011/09/01/the-twisted-african-democratic-revolutions/">the crowded</a> ranks of military <a href="http://www.africandictator.org/?p=1518">dictators in Africa</a>. Yet, Ghana <a href="http://vibeghana.com/2011/12/31/former-president-rawlings-marks-30-years-of-revolution/">chooses to celebrate</a> this date and <a href="http://www.ghanamma.com/2011/12/statement-rawlings-address-at-31st-december-anniversary/">Rawlings' speech</a> on this historic occasion has been shared and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ghana/index.html">published</a>, his words hearkened to (<a href="http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=26730">albeit</a>) and his <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1050310.stm">global standing</a> only <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11747859">embellished</a> by his [<a href="http://amisom-au.org/2011/10/speech-of-the-african-union-high-representative-for-somalia-at-the-opening-ceremony-of-the-first-meeting-of-the-china-africa-think-tanks-forum/">role</a>]* as the African Union's envoy to Somalia. What<a href="http://forum.davidson.edu/cis485/?p=1579"> manner</a> of military <a href="http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=812">dictatorship</a> was <a href="http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=215112">this</a> and <a href="http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=17808">what</a> changes did the coup <a href="http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v5/v5i2a1.htm">accomplish</a> in <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/qa-jarreth-merz">democratic Ghana</a>, today <a href="http://ghana.gov.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4452:world-bank-on-ghanas-economic-growth-&catid=28:general-news&Itemid=162">considered the fastest</a> growing <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201109151412.html">and</a> stable Sub Saharan <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-22/ghana-s-economy-expanded-34-in-second-quarter-on-oil-output-1-.html">economy</a> expected <a href="http://www.businesstimesafrica.net/btm/details.cfm?prodcatID=6&tblNewsCatID=47&tblNewsID=390">to be</a> elevated to<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201111141566.html"> middle income status</a> in the near future? * The BBC describes him as the AU's representative on Somalia but the AMISOM website has missing bits around this fact. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.111130 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:45:37 -0800 africa coup democracy dictator ghana jerryrawlings military infini