Mr. Mugabe is connected to Ghana<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in many ways as he once taught as a teacher in Ghana, and got a Ghanaian wife.<\/p>\n The Zimbabwean leader\u2019s comment comes on the back of criticisms by a section of Ghanaians who argued that President Akufo-Addo\u2019s speech at the Black Star Square sought to skew Ghana\u2019s history to favour his political lineage as against the Nkrumah narrative.<\/p>\n Akufo-Addo didn’t skew Ghana’s history<\/strong><\/p>\n But the President\u2019s spokesperson, Mustapha Hamid, has rejected claims that the President tried to skew Ghana\u2019s history to favour his father, Edward Akufo-Addo, and uncle, J.B. Dankwa, who also played a key role in the fight for independence.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe\u2019s Presidential Spokesperson and Information, Media and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary, George Charamba, earlier told the media that Ghana was a torch bearer of African independence.<\/p>\n \u201cFor us, Ghana is a symbol of African freedom struggles and independence and by going back to Ghana, His Excellency is associating himself with the politics and persuasion of Ghana in the context of Africa\u2019s struggles for independence.\u00a0Secondly, the President had a teaching stint in Ghana soon after its independence, so there is an emotional attachment to his return there besides the marital factor. Because of the President\u2019s presence in Ghana at that critical time, he became a vector through which Ghana\u2019s pan-African politics and instruments of the struggle were introduced into nationalist politics in the then Rhodesia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana![\"ghanaat60-14\"](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GhanaAt60-14-e1488798525409.jpg\")
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