"My First Coup d'Etat "chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in
Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of A frica. He was
seven years old when rumors of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His
father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than
a year."
My First Coup d'Etat "offers a look at the country that has long been considered
Africa's success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama's is a rare
literary voice from a political leader, and his personal stories work on many
levels--as fables, as history, as cultural and political analyses, and, of
course, as the