What Ghana’s first woman vice-presidential candidate of a major party offers
ROBERT E. HINSON, Head, Dept of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Ghana Business School, University of Ghana GHANA has a reputation as one of the more established democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. It has successfully organised six elections in its fourth republic, with power changing hands between the two largest political parties, the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress. These two parties represent almost 95% of voting numbers based on past elections. Over these elections, women have participated and been elected to positions in parliament. Some women have also been nominated as running mates and have run for the…