ACCRA, Sept 30 (The African Portal) – Former United Nations senior adviser Baffour Agyeman-Duah has praised Ghanaian President John Mahama’s speech at the United Nations, calling it the boldest by an African leader in decades.
Agyeman-Duah, who previously advised African governments on governance reforms, said Mahama’s address broke with what he described as years of timidity by African leaders on the global stage.
“It reminded me of the early post-independence era when leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere spoke at the UN with courage,” he told reporters in Accra.
Mahama criticised the treatment of African migrants by Western nations and challenged the role of international financial institutions, which he said continue to exploit the continent.
Agyeman-Duah singled out Mahama’s remark that “if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like one, then it is indeed a duck” as a sign of his readiness to call out global double standards.
“Our leaders have for too long been timid, either out of fear or dependency on foreign powers,” Agyeman-Duah said. “Mahama cut through that silence.”
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