About the book
This book focuses on the values, principles, experiences, communication, outlook and leadership of Vice President Bawumia. Despite the changing dynamics of the presidency in Ghana, there is limited work on the evolving role of the Vice Presidency in one of Africa’s most heralded democracies using an individual as a case study. This book fills an important gap because it calls attention not only to an often-overlooked position, but to the increasing significance, substantiveness and evolutionary status of the Vice Presidency using Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as a primer.
Through his agility, dutifulness and committedness, he made of the office of the Vice President more visible, practical, and impactful thereby reforming, reinvigorating, and renewing the institutional relevance of the office for years to come. Our nation, our democracy and the institution of the Vice Presidency will never be the same again thanks to Dr Bawumia, and his dynamic transformation of the VPship, as an instrument for impact and advocacy on causes such as digitalization, political civility, innovation, social cohesion, development, societal progress, compassion, and unlimited opportunities.
In both image and stature, the office has taken a modern, progressive and forward-looking turn setting the tone for future democratic leadership for a long time. As part of ongoing conversations about leadership, this book seeks to capture the underlying ethos of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia with the hope of helping to understand and appreciate a man who has become a consequential figure in Ghana’s national and political affairs. It would be a great resource to the general public, observers and followers of politics, communication, international affairs, political science, African affairs, and the international community. Hopefully, from a scholarly perspective, it should add to the literature on this important position while spurring debates about the form, structure, and role of the Vice Presidency in established as well as emerging democracies.
Review
“Through his agility, dutifulness and committedness, he made of the office of the Vice President more visible, practical, and impactful thereby reforming, reinvigorating, and renewing the institutional relevance of the office for years to come.”
Stephen Berry,
Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa and Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
“In both image and stature, the office has taken a modern, progressive and forward-looking turn setting the tone for future democratic leadership for a long time. As part of ongoing conversations about leadership, this book seeks to capture the underlying ethos of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia with the hope of helping to understand and appreciate a man who has become a consequential figure in Ghana’s national and political affairs.”
DR. BAWUMIA AND THE MODERN VICE PRESIDENCY IN GHANA
-Prof. G. Etse Sikan
“This book focuses on the values, principles, experiences, communication, outlook and leadership of Vice President Bawumia. Despite the changing dynamics of the presidency in Ghana, there is limited work on the evolving role of the Vice Presidency in one of Africa’s most heralded democracies using an individual as a case study.”
The story of Dr. Bawumia’s life trajectory from Walewale to the Vice-presidency can only be a testament of the Ghanaian dream, Ghanaian opportunities, and Ghanaian possibilities.”
rof. G. Etse Sikanku, Author
“Dr Bawumia and the Modern Vice Presidency. (International Media, Political and Communication Analyst)
“The purpose of this book is to deconstruct the persona of someone who has re-imagined, reconstructed, and revolutionized the Vice presidency of Ghana in a consequential manner:
H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. “Dr.Bawumia and the Modern Vice
Presidency in Ghana” tells the story of a humble, hardworking, public- spirited, and compassionate man whose sense of duty to the nation led him from the Deputy Governorship at the Bank of Ghana to the number-two man in the nation.”
Prof. G. Etse Sikanku, Author