Emmanuel Adama Mahama Explained

Emmanuel Adama Mahama
Office3:	Northern Regional Minister
President3:	Kwame Nkrumah
Term End3:	February 1966
Predecessor3:	New position
Successor3:	National Liberation Council
Office4:	Member of Parliament for West Gonja
Term End4:	February 1966
Predecessor4:	New Position
Successor4:	Parliament suspended
Birth Place:	Damongo, Ghana
Party:	Convention People's Party

Emmanuel Adama Mahama was a Ghanaian politician. He served as a Member of Parliament during the First Republic of Ghana. He is the father of John Dramani Mahama, the 4th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana.^[1]

Political career

An educator and rice farmer, he was the first Minister of State for the Northern Region under the Nkrumah government. Mahama also served as a senior presidential adviser during Ghana's Third Republic under Hilla Limann.^[2] He was also the first MP for the West Gonja constituency.^[3]

Personal life

He was a Presbyterian. His son, John Dramani Mahama was the president of Ghana from July 2012 until January 2017. His younger son, Ibrahim Mahama, is a businessman.

See also

• Nkrumah government

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Relations. Bard Public. Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama to Deliver Inaugural Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum Lecture at Bard College on Monday, December 9 Bard College Public Relations. 2020-11-29. www.bard.edu. en.
2. Web site: I Will Deliver-John Mahama . News . NorthernGhana.com . 21 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054742/http://www.northernghana.com/news/i/?n=610 . 21 September 2013 .
3. Web site: Profile of President John Dramani Mahama. ModernGhana.com. 21 December 2012. 25 July 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121102021454/http://www.modernghana.com/news/407897/1/profile-of-president-john-dramani-mahama.html. 2 November 2012. live. dmy-all.