Mahama

	Mahama Mahama is an African given name and surname. People with this name include: Given name Mahama Awal, Cameroonian footballer Mahama Ayariga, Ghanaian politician * Mahama Sawadogo, Burkinabé politician * Mahama Johnson Traoré, Senegalese film director and producer Surname Aliu Mahama, Ghanaian engineer and politician Edward Mahama, Ghanaian physician and politician * Emmanuel Adama Mahama, Ghanaian politician and father of John Dramani * Ibrahim Mahama (born 1971), Ghanaian businessman, brother of John Dramani John Dramani Mahama John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as pres ..., Ghanaian politician and former president of Ghana {{given name, type=both African given names Surnames of African origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Dramani Mahama John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as president on 24 July 2012 following the death of his predecessor John Evans Fiifi Attah Mills. Mahama is a communication expert, historian, and writer. A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), he was Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi from 1997 to 2009 and served as Deputy Minister for Communication between 1997 and 1998 before becoming the substantive Minister for Communications from 1998 to 2001. Mahama is the first vice president to take over the presidency from the death of his predecessor, John Evans Atta Mills, and is the first head of state of Ghana to have been born after Ghana's independence. He was elected after December 2012 election to serve as full-time President. He contested re-election for a second term in the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ibrahim Mahama (businessman) Ibrahim Mahama (born 29 January 1971) is a Ghanaian businessman, and the founder of ''Engineers and Planners'', the largest indigenous-owned mining company in West Africa, and the owner of several other businesses in Ghana including Dzata Cement Limited. He is the younger brother of John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana from 2012 to 2017. Early life He was born in Piase in the Northern Region of Ghana to Emmanuel Adama Mahama, the first Minister of State of the Northern Region under the first President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. His mother, Joyce Tamakloe comes from Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana. He moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied at the College of North London. After college, he went on to live in London, where he worked for a property development company. Career Mahama started his company Engineers & Planners in 1997 after his return from London. The company now employs over 3000 Ghanaian employees. Mahama has also invested in Asutsuare Poultry F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aliu Mahama Alhaji Aliu Mahama (3 March 1946 – 16 November 2012) was a Ghanaian engineer and politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. A member of the New Patriotic Party, he was Ghana's first Muslim Vice-President. Early life and education An ethnic Dagomba, Aliu Mahama as a young man studied at the Government Secondary School in Tamale from 1960 to 1967 for his Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates. He proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi from 1967 to 1971 where he obtained the B.Sc. in Building Technology. Mahama was also an Alumnus of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). In order to sharpen and deepen his management and leadership skills, he obtained two certificates from the Institute in Project Planning and Management and in Leadership. Career He started his working career at the Bolgatanga regional office of the State Construction Corporation as an Engineer/Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mahama Ayariga Mahama Ayariga (born 12 May 1974) is a lawyer and politician in Ghana. He belongs to the National Democratic Congress. He was the Minister of Information and Media Relations and the Minister of Youth and Sports under the John Dramani Mahama administration. He is currently the Member of Parliament representing Bawku Central constituency of the Upper East Region of Ghana in the 4th,6th and 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. Early life and education Mahama Ayariga was born on 12 May 1974 in Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He was educated in Ghana and Nigeria and the United States of America. He attended the Barewa College in Zaria in Kaduna State, Nigeria. He holds a Master of Law (LLM) degree from the Harvard Law School in the United States of America and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) Degree from University of Ghana, Legon. He was the executive director of Legal Resource Centre in Accra. Ayariga's older brother Ayariga Hassan was the presidential candidate of the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Emmanuel Adama Mahama 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. 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. He was also the first MP for the West Gonja constituency. 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 Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial r ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mahama Johnson Traoré Mahama Johnson Traoré (1942–2010) was a Senegalese film director, writer, and co-founder of the Ouagadougou-based Pan-African Cinema Festival (FESPACO). Biography Traoré was born in 1942 at Dakar.Senegalese film-maker Johnson Traore dies AFP. 10 March 2010 The son of a businessman, Traoré studied in Senegal, Mali and France to be an electrical engineer. In Paris he quit his studies to follow a passion for film. There he enrolled in the ''Conservatoire libre du cinéma français'', an avant-garde school inspired by current German and Italian cinema and the theoretical approaches of the French ORTF. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Edward Mahama Edward Nasigrie Mahama (born 15 April 1945) is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician. Early life and education Born in the village of Sumniboma (northern Ghana) in 1945, Mahama attended Nalerigu Primary and Middle School from 1953 to 1959. He then attended Secondary School in Tamale from 1961 to 1965. Later that year, he was admitted to the University of Ghana in Legon and graduated in 1972 with a medical degree. Medicine Mahama went back to Nalerigu as a medical doctor in September 1973 and four years later, he left Ghana to become an Obstetrics and Gynecology Physician in Chicago, Illinois. During this period, he was also a Clinical Instructor at Northwestern University. In 1990, Mahama was appointed a lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School and consultant at Accra's Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He was elected a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1994. Politics In 1996, running as the presidential candidate of the People's National Convention (PN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mahama Awal Mahama Awal (; born 10 June 1991) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club Southern. Club career Awal joined China League One club Guangdong Sunray Cave in 2009. On 10 May 2009, he scored his first senior goal in the league match against Liaoning Whowin. He played with Guangdong Sunray Cave for six seasons, scoring 31 goals in 128 league appearances. Awal transferred to Hong Kong Premier League side South China in January 2015. He made his debut for South China on 11 January against arch rival Kitchee. He scored the game-tying goal in the injury time which gave South China a 2-2 draw with Kitchee. On 11 June 2017, Pegasus chairperson Canny Leung Canny Leung Chi-Shan () is a Hong Kong songwriter and author. Biography Leung is a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Career Leung was a model, an actor in television commercials, and an emcee on television and radio programs. ... revealed that Awal along wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mahama Sawadogo Mahama Sawadogo (1954Page at petiteacademie.gov.bf . – 24 October 2017) was a Burkinabé politician , serving as President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) Parliamentary Group in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso when he died. Sawadogo was High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	African Given Names African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa * Ethnic groups of Africa * Demographics of Africa * African diaspora African, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the African Union Citizenship of the African Union Demographics of the African Union Africanfuturism African art * African jazz (other) African cuisine African culture African languages African music African Union ** African lion, a lion population in Africa Books and radio * ''The African'' (essay), a story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio * ''The African'' (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton * ''The African'' (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander * ''The Africans'' (radio program) Music * "African", a song by Peter Tosh f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]