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Politics Over Practicality: Ghana’s President Mahama Keeps Amassing Honorary Titles Despite Virtually Running A Country Into The Ground

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It seems to me that we have a very funny definition of what constitutes success on this continent. Whilst most people would agree that doing exceptionally well at a task, or perhaps just well enough, would constitute success- we seem to think success means nothing but just being rising high enough to occupy a certain position.

The actual level of your performance is moot.

Of course, there are always the issues of politics to consider as well. Because politics is a game where the truth is at a premium, honesty is virtually non-existent; and the only language that matters is that of expediency.

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has had a very fulfilling time the past couple of weeks. Trying to square my experience of Ghana as it is with the obvious accolades being showered on the man is leaving me with a severe case of cognitive dissonance that threatens to wreck my brain.

Two weeks ago, the people of Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana enstooled the President as a chief in the area. The President was endowed with the stool name Nana Asomfo Dramani Atopi.

And then just this weekend, the University of Ilorin honoured the President with an honorary law doctorate,followed by the Offa Kingdom of the Kwara State of Nigeria conferring an honorary chieftaincy title on him. A huge ceremony was held where they sang the President’s praises, culminating in him receiving the stool name AARE ATOLASE OF OFFA KINGDOM.

All of this was triumphantly broadcast by the FlagStaff House communications team to Ghanaians. To them it serves as a sort of vindication that the President receives all these accolades from outsiders. To them it serves as proof that the President is indeed the man they daily proclaim him to be, the saviour of this country who is not appreciated by his own people.

And to the President, I would imagine it would give him the warm, fuzzy feeling that he is indeed the right man to run Ghana. It would give him the strength to continue down whatever path he has laid down, convinced that his efforts are really yielding fruits for the people of Ghana, so much so that he is earning recognition both domestically and internationally.

Of course, it is none of those things. There is no objective measure via which this President can be declared to have done enough to merit any accolade being thrown on him. This is why I began by invoking the rule on which politics runs, that of expediency. So perhaps he deserves the accolades on the grounds that he is good at that game- but certainly not because he is any good at running a country.

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