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He led Ghana from 1981 to 2001.
Ancien army lieutenant in the Ghana air, he participated for the first time in a military coup in May 1979.
It will organize a new coup in June following that will reverse the Fred Akuffo regime and bring it to the head of pays.
En September of that year, Rawlings makes power to civilians and Hilla Limann becomes president.
But a few years later, in December 1981, Rawlings again taken up arms; he overthrows the regime Limann, he considers corrupt, and takes charge of the Provisional Council of Defense nationale.
En 1992 after resigning from the army and founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Rawlings committed his country on the path of democratization.
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