Prominent Ghanaian politician, Dan Lartey, makes his transition. He was 83.

Posted by the ghetto intellectual 2/8/2010

Axé!


Sad news. Myjoyonline reports that on Dec. 28, 2009, former Ghana presidential candidate Dan Lartey made his transition to the Ancestors. Mr. Lartey founded the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), one of several splinter groups from Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP). None of the Nkrumahist candidates focus much on pan-Africanism these days. And I was not very familiar with Mr. Lartey's specific policy agenda (actually, as near I can tell, there is not much that separates Ghana's political parties in terms of specific policies), but I remember watching some of his televised interviews and debates during my visits to Ghana. 
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Dan Lartey is dead


Mr. Daniel Augustus Lartey, presidential candidate, leader, founder and chairman of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) is dead.

Dan Lartey, also called Uncle Dan or Domestication, passed away on Monday, December 28, at his residence in Accra after a short illness, according to family sources. He was 83.

Henry Lartey, son of Mr Dan Lartey, confirmed the death to Adom FM.

He said the family was meeting Tuesday morning over the bad news but said the family would celebrate the life and death of their father because he had achieved a lot for himself and for Ghana.

Dan Lartey, a staunch vestige of Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party and an Nkrumahist adherent, has run for national president on the ticket of the GCPP on two occasions since breaking away to form the GCPP as a splinter of the CPP.


Read entire story @ Myjoyonline.


tags: CPP, dan lartey, GCPP, ghana, pan-African, politics