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The Ghana Runoff

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by  |  on January 6th, 2009  |  2 comments

The opposition candidate, John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), appears to have won a slim margin of victory in Ghana's runoff election held last week. Both optimistic and pessimistic observers now hope that the results hold up and that no violence springs up in the wake of the final tally.  Place me in the optimist's camp. The social indicators in Ghana bode well and there was little indication before the runoff vote that real trouble was on the horizon.  

 
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  1. crystal Tuesday - 03 / 02 / 2009 Reply
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    Derek Catsam Thursday - 05 / 02 / 2009 Reply
    Thanks for reading, and please do share the blog with other appropriate readers! dc

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Derek Catsam
Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s, the Freedom Rides, and South African resistance politics in the 1980s. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He is also a lifelong sports fan, with the Boston Red Sox as his first true love. He was one of about three dozen people to write books about the 2004 World Champion Red Sox, and the result is Bleeding Red: A Red Sox Fan's Diary of the 2004 Season. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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