Almost four years after stepping down as the President and giving way for his successor, John Dramani Mahama and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo met and a lot transpired.
The former President who was in the company of his 2020 running mate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku- Agyeman and other leading members of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, sat closer to president Akufo- Addo who was also in the company of some leading members of the New Patriotic Party, NPP.
The two personalities after the vent for which they met, shook hands, exchanged pleasantries and laughed. The scene was filled with happiness though a tragic event that brought them together.
They met during the state laying of a former stateswoman, politician, lecturer and author, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo.
Ama Ata Aidoo was born on 23rd March 1942 and died on 31st May 2023.
She was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings' s PNDC administration. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.
Her contribution to Ghanaian education was something recognised by leaders in both political parties. As a result, both John Dramani Mahama and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo shared words in her honour.
In a heartfelt tribute, Mr. Mahama said: " ' There are two ways of spreading light, ' says the celebrated American writer Edith Wharton, ' to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it' . "
" Aunt Ama was the candle, and I have had the privilege of being one of the millions of mirrors across the globe that reflected the light that she, as the prime source, inspired and freely gifted the world. "
In an emotional tribute at the same burial service of the late Playwright at the forecourt of the State House in Accra, President Akufo- Addo acknowledged Ama Ata Aidoo' s unparalleled talent and described her as a literary icon whose words resonated with readers around the globe.
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