Rawlings Receives Strategic African Leaders

Former President Rawlings last Thursday received members of the British

Council?s strategic African Leadership programme at his residence in Accra.

The members were there to share the life experience of the former president

during his 18-year tenure as Head of State of Ghana and also to find out

what motivated him to lead the country for such a long period.

The four-day programme organized by the British Council seeks to bring

strategic leaders across the continent together to share ideas and also

learn from most successful personalities in Africa to enable participants

impart the knowledge gained for the development of their various countries.

Participants were drawn from Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Cameroon,

Senegal, United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.

Flanked by his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Kofi Adams, Deputy

National Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress and special

aide President Rawlings cautioned educated and elite Africans to refrain

from using common English language to intimidate their fellow Africans.

He said he assumed power with young and energetic officers who after the

1979 uprising converted their anger and energy into productivity that ?has

brought Ghana to where we are now?.