Talk:Heads of state of Ghana

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--JohnArmagh 08:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)Does anyone have a reliable source for this information. I'm looking at the official Ghana government website, http://www.ghana.gov.gh/governing/ghglance.php at it gives a different list of leaders than the one listed here.

Perhaps there is some discrepency between the who had the title of president and who was actually the leader of the country???

The lists are mostly the same. The only difference is that the government site lists the prime minister between 1969 and 1972, while we list the Head of State. I must say that the list here (like all of the lists created by User:JohnArmagh), is incredibly annoying to look at. john k 00:46, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I respect both the work and opinions of john k, though in this instance the observation is quite subjective. The lists are more structured and contain more relevant information than was the case previously, and it does not take Einstein to work out what is going on in them, whereas in the non-tabular format they tended to look rather messy. --JohnArmagh 05:50, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Hey JohnArmagh, what was your source for the list of presidents? I am trying to reconcile the different lists I have come across. --Davidley 13:40, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I have been reading an account of politics in Ghana 1969 to 1972 http://country-studies.com/ghana/the-national-liberation-council-and-the-busia-years,-1966-71.html and from what I can see from this source, despite the official Ghana government website's inclusion of Dr Busia as President/Head of State - he was actually Prime Minister rather than head of state.

Kofi Busia was directly elected in 1969 elections, from the Progress Party. Are you sure he was prime minister and not president? In Ghana's presidential system, the role of the prime minister is very heavily circumscribed.