Marais na Viongozi Duniani: John Dramani Mahama

John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician who has been President of Ghana since July 2012. He was born on 29 November 1958. He was the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012. He took office as President on 24th July 2012 following the death of his predecessor, President John Atta Mills. He was elected to serve his first term as president in December 2012 election. John Dramani Mahama is a communication expert, historian and writer. He was a member of Parliament from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from 1998 to 2001.

His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, a wealthy rice farmer and teacher was the first Member of Parliament for the West Gonja constituency and the first Regional Commissioner of the Northern Region during the First Republic under the Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah. His father also served as a senior presidential advisor during Ghana's Third Republic under Hilla Limann.

President John Dramani Mahama had his early education at Achimota School and then proceeded to Ghana Secondary School, Tamale Northern region and the University of Ghana, Legon, receiving a Bachelor's degree in history in 1981 and a postgraduate diploma in communication studies in 1986. He also studied at the Institute of Social Sciences, Moscow in the then Soviet Union, specializing in social psychology, obtaining a postgraduate degree in 1988.

After completing his undergraduate education President John Dramani Mahama taught History at the secondary school level for a few years. Upon his return to Ghana after studying in Moscow, he worked as the information, Culture and Research Officer at the Embassy of Japan in Accra between 1991 and 1995.

President John Dramani Mahama is married to Lordina Mahama and has seven children.